Bowen, Patrick A wrote:
>
> Mark, in my limited experience I have never seen one of the gauges go bad.
> What I have seen though is cables break, have poor connections, or the
> speedo drive gear in the transmission stripped out (its plastic of course).
> I would really check these out, all of these problems except for the
> stripped out gear is easy to resolve. To troubleshoot disconnect the speedo
> and have the cable hang out under the dash. Put your finger lightly on the
> top of the inner cable and drive the car forward or backward a few feet, you
> should feel it spin. If it spins everything up to the speedo is good. If
> not you either have a bad connection or a bad speedo (I would bet bad
> connection, they are hard to snap on) . If in fact it is your gauge, there
> are plenty around, I even have one that I would be willing to sell pretty
> reasonable.
>
> Patrick
>
Thanks everybody, but it's a moot point. The car looked pretty good
from 10 or 20 feet, it had been repainted right over the stickers. The
front suspension was in very bad shape, the interior was pretty
threadbare, and several of the emission components were missing. I
think I can do better, but I may take a closer look at it next week.
Waiting for number 10,
Mark Gardner
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