silver dollar speedo blues....

[jerry]

i was able to put 190 glorious uneventful miles on my original speedometer when i finally got this car back on the road. all of a sudden while on the freeway, it died.

my initial finding was a broken tip at the tranny connection. ultimately, i discovered that the speedo siezed. the cable input will not rotate.

question: is this a DIY job or a speedo shop job? it is NOT the odometer gears that is the problem. accessing the problem area will require undoing a couple small cheesehead screws with tattle-tale paint on them.

[ray_]

I dunno ;-)

Worst that can happen is you break something and have to send it to a shop!

This may help, tho I wish there were more photos.

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/content/view/72/32/

GL,

Ray

[Guest Anonymous]

replacing the cable is easy....

[Mike Self]

there's a pretty good chance you can fix it yourself. I've had my speedos apart many times, and they're actually pretty simple, if delicate.

Drop me an e-mail after you get the unit out and tell me what you found, and I may be able to help. I did several columns on speedo repairs, so your problem may be covered.

cheers

mike

[jerry]

yes, the broken cable was merely a result of the seized speedo. thanks for the encouraging words wrt to disassembly.

i wasn't sure i wanted to deal with it right now without some input, as i have other items to occupy my time if it was a dead end prospect.

i'll give this some attention now. fortunately, i do have a good replacement already installed and another less than perfect one to disassemble first as a test case (it's missing its indicator needle).

[TobyB]

OH, yeah, if you have a donor to play with, go for it.

I agree with Mike- it's not hard, but you have to be gentle.

t