E Body speedometer needle
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03/13/16 05:02 PM
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The speedo needle broke on one of my 70 cudas. I see you can buy a new one. anyone ever chance one? any tips?
68 cuda formula S 588" bb 5sp
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Re: E Body speedometer needle
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03/13/16 07:20 PM
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Thanks Mike! So I do not need to remove the spedo from the car?
68 cuda formula S 588" bb 5sp
70 CUDA CONVERT 500" 5SP (SUBLIME)
70 CUDA CONVERT 500" 5SP (PLUMCRAZY):TOO MUCH HORSEPOWER, IS ALMOST ENOUGH!
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Re: E Body speedometer needle
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03/13/16 07:26 PM
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Thanks Mike! So I do not need to remove the spedo from the car? You can do it "in car", you'll need to remove most of the dash/instrument fascia panels to get down to the clear plastic lens for removal,the speedo can stay in the cluster, a pair of thin needle nose pliers with a 90 degree turn to the tips will help in holding the speedo pin stem steady while R&R'ing of the needle
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Re: E Body speedometer needle
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03/15/16 11:52 AM
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Mine broke 38 years ago. None of the gears or anything else in the chain were cracked or damaged. Just the pointer broken. Drove it 20+ years that way with the pointer still on the bottom of the speedo.
Finally opened it up to repair the trip odometer and while it was open I repaired it by super gluing a small strand of copper wire in the v channel of the pointer joining it up. I painted it with Coast Guard Orange model paint. Has been 5 years since the repair and it is still holding up.
The damage can also be caused by a foreign object getting into the magnetic drive at the rear of the speedometer.
Craig
2014 Ram 1500 Laramie, 73 Cuda
Previous mopars: 62 Valiant, 65 Fury III, 68 Fury III, 72 Satellite, 74 Satellite, 89 Acclaim, 98 Caravan, 2003 Durango
Only previous Non-Mopar: Schwinn Tornado
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Re: E Body speedometer needle
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03/15/16 12:45 PM
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Mine broke 38 years ago. None of the gears or anything else in the chain were cracked or damaged. Just the pointer broken. Drove it 20+ years that way with the pointer still on the bottom of the speedo.
Finally opened it up to repair the trip odometer and while it was open I repaired it by super gluing a small strand of copper wire in the v channel of the pointer joining it up. I painted it with Coast Guard Orange model paint. Has been 5 years since the repair and it is still holding up.
The damage can also be caused by a foreign object getting into the magnetic drive at the rear of the speedometer.
Craig Interesting. I fixed one the same way many years ago but instead of copper wire I went to fabric store and bought the smallest size sewing machine needle they make. Extremely thin/stiff/light. Superglue and Testor's fluorescent orange paint. Worked fine
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Re: E Body speedometer needle
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06/28/19 12:02 AM
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Thanks Mike! So I do not need to remove the spedo from the car? You can do it "in car", you'll need to remove most of the dash/instrument fascia panels to get down to the clear plastic lens for removal,the speedo can stay in the cluster, a pair of thin needle nose pliers with a 90 degree turn to the tips will help in holding the speedo pin stem steady while R&R'ing of the needle This may be possible, but there is enough disassembly required to get to the point of being able to remove the clear plastic lens that you might as well make it easy on yourself and just pull the entire gauge cluster out so that you can work on the thing on a bench or table "like a gentleman".
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