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Vehicle & Technical => Range Rover => Topic started by: drmike on February 21, 2005, 20:27:25
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The Speedo in my 1977 classic was reading low and in fact would never go over 40 mph. No needle twitching but low reading all the time.
So I changed the speedo head and no change except if anything it now reads lower than before!
There's a little voltage regulator thing on the rear of the instrument pod and it loks like it's sufefred a bit with evidence of burning.
Bring a ray of hope into my life and tell me that could be the reason for both heads reading low. I had to swap the regualtor between heads as the replacement didn't have one.
Other than that I suppose it's new cable time?
TIA
Mike
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I don't think the voltage regulator has anything to do with the speedo as it is a mechanical device. Before you go and buy a new cable, check the speedo drive on the side of the gearbox where the speedo cable attaches - disconnect the speedo cable at the gearbox, and pull out the drive with a pair of pliers. It should have a square end where the cable locates into it. Mine wouldn't work at all and it turned out that the square drive bit had broken off.
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All this misbehaviour started when I had to take lumps of the transfer box and the speedo cable was removed. I have checked it again since but a third time won't hurt I guess.
Better that then changing the cable.
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Either the speedo cable isn't into one of the square drives properly or the teeth on one of the skew gears is lunched :shock:
Sisters Fiesta did that after about 180,000 miles, every time she took her foot of the gas the speedo hit the pin, would only work under acceleration :? Diff had moved sideways and eaten the gear, did the same to a new gear in about a week :evil:
Did you say lumps out of transfer box :-k
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Thanks, I am planning to take a look at the gear box end of drive when the weather warms up!
Well I didn't mean lumps out of transfer box but that's actually why I was tehre I blew the centre diff and there were bits of the central spider thing all over the place. I didn't realise but the thing was dropping in and out of diff lock at will. Thankfully a mate had a spare box I could plunder and all seems well now.
Mike