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Well, it's not only the needle... 200 1980

posted by  jim e on  Tue Mar 2 06:38 CST 2004
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I did this job recently. I switched the 85 mph speedo in my '81 to a 120 mph speedo, and had to reset the odometer forward. Dave Shannon's page has the pictures and instructions that gave me the confidence to do this.
http://www.homestead.com/volvo2/Odometer2.html
His instructions cover replacing a broken odo gear, but they are good instructions on speedo surgery. The top photo on this link shows the row of odo gears that need to be reset. You can't turn one single gear independent of the others because they are locked together. You need to remove the shaft that they rotate on, and then reset them one at a time. It takes some steady hands, tweezers, and patience! The shaft is swaged at both ends. I filed the swage away from one end and was then able to remove the shaft. After reseting the numbers, I epoxied the shaft back in place with JB Weld. You could take before and after photos of the two speedo units as documentation that you didn't change the odo reading.
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Jim Egelston - Seattle - '81 245DL, '85 244GL, '94 945T, '89 535i, '74 R90S






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