MD Mission!

I know have a mission for Maintenance Day, Whoo hoo! I mean, Bummer!

The Beast's speedo quit working while out CTFW this evening.

Never made a sound, just quit.

If you are lucky, the cable just snapped. If you are not so lucky, the cable snapped because the gears on the odometer seized up which is unfortunately a somewhat common occurrence...

I had a speedo cable fall out while going down the road. Hopefully its something easy like that

I had a speedo cable fall out while going down the road. Hopefully its something easy like that

Had same thing happen to me on my 84!

I checked the connection at the wheel and tried to reach up and check at the console but there's no room to get at it without removing plastics. I can't remember if the speedo cable is secured by anything other than the connection at the console or not, but it is not falling free and I can't pull it down/out.

I'll rig up a mount for my phone somewhere and run a GPS speedo ap for the ride to MD.

I checked the connection at the wheel and tried to reach up and check at the console but there's no room to get at it without removing plastics. I can't remember if the speedo cable is secured by anything other than the connection at the console or not, but it is not falling free and I can't pull it down/out.

 

I'll rig up a mount for my phone somewhere and run a GPS speedo ap for the ride to MD.

On my 83, if you take the bezel off headlight (2 screws on bottom), then take out headlight, 2 screws, you can get to the cable at the back of the CMS. It's only secured with a screw connection. However, I also recall, if you loosen up screw down low, you can pull cable out (and at least see if it's broken)