E Body speedometer needle

The speedo needle broke on one of my 70 cudas. I see you can buy a new one. anyone ever chance one? any tips?

It's a simple push on/pull off on the speedo pin, but a very delicate touch is needed as the needles are very thin in thickness and distort/break easily, try and grasp the speedo pin under the needle with thin needle nose pliers as you wiggle the needle off, and push the new one on.

mike

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

most times when the needle breaks it's because it hits the stop due to a plastic gear being cracked. If the gear is cracked it will slip over 60mph and break the new needle too.

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

Good info.
So who sells the speedo needle now?
Couldn't seem to find one doing an internet search.

Here's one on ebay

https://www.ebay.com/i/254200599536?chn=ps

I recently repaired mine following an earlier post from several years back by Pacnorthcuda. Many thanks

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".

Thanks for the link RSS