Kaiser Frazer Owners Club Forum
General Category => Kaiser Forum => Topic started by: JoeKeys2010 on January 05, 2014, 05:53:10 PM
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My speedometer work fine until just before I took the car out of service to paint the underside. It was jumping all over the place. Today I pulled the cable out and looked at it. It appeared to be in good shape, lots of graphite on it. I pulled the cable out of the parts cars in installed it. When I went on my drive the speedometer worked just fine. Any ideas on why I had trouble with it before? I have a spare head (gage) and gear for the transmission
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A jumping speedo needle is an indication of a binding cable. Removing and reinstalling it may have dislodged the goop causing the problem. Keep an eye on it. It may take a good cleaning of the cable and casing to correct the problem.
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The cable I pulled out had some excess granite at the end that goes into the speedometer. The cable from the parts car that I installed was not coated as much. I'll keep an eye on it and if it gives me a problem again I'll pull the housing and clean it good.
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One thing I found that helped my speedo jumping problem was to move the cable around slightly under the dash while it was connected. There seems to be a "sweet spot" that keeps the cable turning properly. I haven't quite found it yet, but it is much better than it was.
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Mine is working now. I think maybe it had too much graphite in the housing.
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You don't usually lube the top 8=10 inches to prevent getting lube in the spedo head
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That might have been the problem because there was a knot of it right at the speedometer head.