A dry or kinked cable will cause the speedo or tach needle to bounce. Make
sure there are smooth radiuses in the cable. You can disconnect the cable
from the tranny and pull out the inner cable and lube it up. It takes a
little practice to reinsert the cable but it's not hard at all but messy.
I used Lithium grease on mine which should be fine and when I pulled it it
was rather dry. You want the cable to move smoothly.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allen Blackmon" <orangedawg@hotmail.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:52 PM
Subject: Speedo and tach repair
> To All,
>
> Just pulled out my speedo and tach on my 1970 2000. Does anyone on the
list
> repair these? My tach was spinning all over the place. It never spun all
> the way around, but it got close. Speedo needle was just bouncing about
+/-
> 10 mph from the speed I was doing. I'm kind of leary working on these
since
> I have no idea what I'm doing, what parts they need, etc. and I don't want
> to damage them beyond repair.
>
> (BTW, the seized engine problem turned out to be a vavle seat that fell
> down, shop says no damage, but told them to pull the engine apart anyway
and
> look at rebuilding since I got it out).
>
> Thanks
>
> Allen
> 1970 2000 13774 (engine no longer seized and out of car, tranny at shop,
gas
> tank all cleaned, hope June 1 back on road).
>
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