From: "Jim Reeve" <ultra@xxxx> Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DML] Re: I broke my own speed-o-meter :-( Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 04:15:58 -0000
When my speedometer started acting funky, I also removed this cable. However, you shouldn't ever need to worry about this cable breaking because it has no possible exposure to weather, plus you dont want to gunk up the speedometer itself. When I removed my upper cable from the Yellow Box thingy (acually the LAMBDA counter), I noticed that when I put it back, the square end of the drive cable had moved a little, so it didn't match up with the square hole in the counter, despite the end being fully screwed in, (it just bowed inside the sleeve). What I would recommend doing is parking the car on a slight slope in neutral. Get in a posistion where you can access the cable-end in one hand, and control the parking brake in the other. While lining up the square end of the drive cable with the square hole in the LAMBDA counter, slowly release the parking brake so the car rolls ever so slightly. When the front wheel turns, so will the hole in the counter, so the square will eventually line up, and when they do so, push it all the way in, stop the car, and completely screw the cable into the counter. If it worked, your speedometer should be working just fine now.
Jim Reeve #6960
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