[DeTomaso] SPEEDOMETER CONCERN !

[Jeff Cobb]

Myron,
  My dealings with Palo Alto Speedometer for 25 plus years have been  
no problem. Always correct on price, time and quality. Hermutt's  
father started it back in the 60's.
You need to call them and allow them to talk it out with you.
Of course they ran it on a drill stand if they would seen a flutter,  
it would have fixed.
As a 30 year mechanic shop owner, I would check the cable routing for  
pinch. Also simply hook up a drill-cable and see for yourself a out of  
car flutter.
Car, cable or speedo owns this problem.
  I drove my Espada in the snow a year and half ago when I heard the  
speedo scream and flutter. Before I knew it the unit died. I got a  
cable kit from Autozone and cut/ placed it in. All was okay till a two  
day ago very fast country drive when the flutter began again at low  
speed. So I need to reoil the cable and lower input bushing/bearing.
So good luck.
Jeff Cobb

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On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Myron Zadony <MZadony at fleetresponse.com>  
wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I have a dilemma.  My Pantera #6928 has 9719 original miles.  My  
> speedo started bouncing & making a schrilling noise.  I wrote to the  
> forum & everybody said to replace the cable so I bought a new cable  
> from Wilkinson.  I took my car to North Coast Exotics in Cleveland.   
> Earl the owner, has worked on my car since I bought it in 1998.   
> After installing the new cable, the noise went away, but the speedo  
> started bouncing around.  Earl took the speedo out of the car &  
> everbody on the forum said give it to Palo Alto Speedometer because  
> they are the best.  He sent it out to them to fix.  It came back a  
> couple of weeks later, I bought the car in, to re-install the speedo  
> & guess what---it started to bounce again.  Well they resent it back  
> to Palo Alto to fix it again (second time).  It came back again,  
> they re-installed & for the third time it started to bounce again.   
> I don't know what gives !  Earl is beside himself.  He asked me to  
> write to the forum again to see what advise you have for me.
>
> I don't want to lose a speedo that has 9719 miles on it, if I have  
> to get a new one or at least a great used one.  I also don't want to  
> check off that the miles are not whats  on the car ( ODOMETER  
> DISCREPANCY ) on the title.
>
> How difficult is it to replace that MF brass gear at the base of the  
> speedo ?  In their add they talk about repairs, refurbishing,  
> rebuilding, restoration of various speedometers.  How do I handle  
> this ?  North Coast Exotics has spent numerous hours working on this  
> & Earl has not charged me anything.  He said " It's not fixed Myron  
> & I won't charge anything until it's fixed "  I am sure Palo Alto  
> Speedo has some sort of charge on this;  It just doesn't work !  I  
> would appreciate it if somebody that has Palo Alto Speedometer e- 
> mail address, please forward this, to them.  Maybe I could work some  
> thing out with them.
>
> I am stuck, any help would greatly be appreciated.  Thanks in  
> advance, Myron Zadony 74 L #6928.
>
>
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