What exactly is going on? The cable broke in the tranny, the end that turns came off and the ends were all frayed, so I replaced the cable with the one from the parts car, and it works, the ends are good so I lubed up the cable and put it back. It works like it should, it rotates 1 way for backing up and the other for going forwards and its speed-related so no problems with the new cable.
However, the speedo itself isnt functioning right, as I back out of my garage to test it out I can hear it click, and when I drive forward it clicks alot and the speedo is really jumpy and its inaccurate.
Background:
While I was making my new overlays I was occasionally putting it in and testing it, checking out what it looks like. Then finally when I had it all completed, the speedo wouldnt work. The cable busted inside. So I drove around without a speedo for a bit, then I decided to try to fix the old one, by jamming the frayed ends in and seeing if it would spin. It would work for a couple seconds sometimes, then stop. But when I was testing it before with the overlay on it worked fine, and I havent changed anything (besides finishing the overlays for the tach/etc)
So whats the deal? My speedo couldnt be broken, because I can hook up a drill and spin the back of the speedo (as the cable would) and it doesnt click, it goes up to about 50kmh (speed of the drill).... .arg!
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