[DeTomaso] Speedo noise
Christopher Kimball
chrisvkimball at msn.com
Thu Dec 12 01:51:32 EST 2013
Shhh! Don't say that out loud! Pandora has been running great lately. Except for when the throttle cable linkage broke last month...
Chris
On Dec 11, 2013, at 2:45 PM, "Bill Lewis" <lotus0005 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Was it Pandora that had all the spooky gremlins!!!
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> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:25:02 -0600
> From: panteradon at gmail.com
> To: detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Speedo noise
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> Like I said before, I don't think it was the cable. I disconnected the speedo AT THE SPEEDO, not the transaxle. Still had noise.
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> One more thing I did not mention (my bad). This IS a new cable.
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> At any rate, the noise is gone now. If it comes back, the speedo will have to come out to be looked at.
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> Don
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Dave <dave at damardirect.com> wrote:
> The noise will return. If the speedo works & makes noise, it is binding somewhere & might have worn some of the inside of the cable jacket. It catches from the bind & snaps. Soon it will break. The lube is usually a short term fix.
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> I think a replacement from Wilkinson is about $50, not the end of the world. Easier to replace rather than putting a band aid on it.
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> From: Don Franck [mailto:panteradon at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:26 PM
> To: michael at michaelshortt.com
> Cc: Mike Drew; detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Speedo noise
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> Well, I had the cable disconnected anyway so I spayed "dry" lube into the cable and a little into the speedo. It worked. The noise is gone!!!
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> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:34 PM, michael at michaelshortt.com <michael at michaelshortt.com> wrote:
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> It seems to me that the noise is IN the cable, that's what mine was doing before it stopped working,
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> I have every intention of replacing the cable to fix it. I think that the end of the cable has simply twisted off.
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> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:29 PM, <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 12/10/13 12 23 54, panteradon at gmail.com writes:
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> My speedo is making one heck of a racket. It is not the cable, I unhook the cable and it stops. Can you spray dry lube in it?
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> What else can you do?
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