Guess I should have known better considering the car has been sitting for nearly 20 years, but yesterday I crawled under the dash and hooked up my speedo again. It worked 20 years ago and seemed to be OK the few times I ran the car on blocks over the years.
So this morning I decide to take the Cuda to work since its a really nice day. Driving through the neigborhood all is well until I hit a small stretch of straigh open road and get her up to about 40 mph. All of the sudden the car starts making noise and scares the $&%t out of me. After a moment I figure out that its the speedo. It works fine up till about 40- 45 then starts making noise and the needle jumps all over the place.
So the noise is annoying, but I push on towards work. Eventually I make it out to the interstate and get her up to about 60 and the needle is jumping all over the place and the next thing I know the needle has broken in half and the pointer is laying in the bottom of the speedo.
So finally I get to the question.
Is a speedo rebuild something I can do myself or is this best left to the professionals. I've got a little bit of experience messing around with gauge clusters (rebuilt my tach, gauges and clock with stuff from RT Engineering) but haven't monkeyed with a speedo yet. Are there replacement parts readily available? I see that RT Eng sells needles and some knobs but don't seem to carry bushings or other internals.
Any speedo masters out there that can diagnose my problem based on the description above?
Thanks
