John-
I had the same problem with a later model GMC truck. Went to the Chevy
dealer and bought a new gear to bolt onto the transmission, and replaced the
old one. Worked fine after that.
Smokey
'50 3600 5-window
>Gosh, its almost 10PM and I just finished a pint of vanilla ice cream.
>Every once in a while I would head for the kitchen and sprinkle on some
>Hersheys chocolate...anyway..
>My speedometer does not work on my '54. It works if you put a drill
>motor on the end that screws into the transmission tail piece, though.
>Unscrewed what I think is the speedo gear out of the tranny tailpiece
>and shined a flashlight in there. Even stuck by little finger in there
>and almost panicked when I thought I got it stuck. It maybe...looks like
>the small gears on the speedo gear could be a little concave??? What do
>you think my options are? Should I pull the tail piece? Can I do that
>without dropping the rear springs and pulling back the whole axle and
>driveline? Maybe try a new speedo gear? Oh, by the way its a 4 speed.
>Thanks John
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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