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Title: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 13 August 2006, 14:19
Can anyone tell me if this looks normal or is there something missing from the end of the speedo cable.
(http://www.photobox.co.uk/shared/photo.html?c_photo=74771964)

Picture wont display :angry: :angry:
Try this link please http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/3720101
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 13 August 2006, 14:22
Wouldn't be able to say cos i can't see sh!t.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 13 August 2006, 14:40
Photo link now available
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/3720101
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 13 August 2006, 14:48
Yep there is a gear that is meant to go on the end, it should have been attatched when you pulled it out of the gearbox.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 13 August 2006, 14:49
Oh thats not good then is it? :cry:
What would you suggest i do now please Slick????
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 13 August 2006, 14:59
well presuming it has fallen off in the gearbox then it needs to be retrived, the gear peices themselves can be bought from VW i am pretty sure, however you will need to know which colour it is that you will need, i believe there are green, white, and red. Mine was a red on (89 valver)

Retrieving it i have heard people just run it for a while, then drain the box, and all the reminance of the old gear come out with that. Not the best idea i reckon personally, but i have heard it works.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 13 August 2006, 15:12
I've just sucked out some of the oil via the speedo hole say about 200ml and i did not see anything in there had a route around did not feel any thing either.
The reason i was in there was the speedo was not working so it may well have dissappeared a while ago?
So now the job of finding out what colour it was?
If i buy a new speedo cable will this gear not come with it?
Thanks for all your help on this.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 13 August 2006, 15:23
Unfortunately not, the cable is just the part to connect into the back of the clocks and mount onto the gearbox. If it has fallen off a while ago then drain the box and you should see the parts of it coming out in the oil.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 13 August 2006, 15:53
gearbox drained no signs of it at all :huh:
Maybe the guy who had it before me had some work done on the box and it was lost then?
I just gotta find out what colour gear i need now.
If any one can help the golf is a 1990 1.8 16v
Cheers
Darren
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: takethefifth on 13 August 2006, 16:33
Whats the max speed shown on your clocks?  The 120 and 160 mph clocks use the same colour gear (white?) and the 140mph ones a different one (red?) . 

Can't remember for sure which colours are which but if you do a search the details are here somewhere!  :smiley:
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: rubjonny on 13 August 2006, 16:36
other way round ;)
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 13 August 2006, 16:38
Cheers i got 160 clocks so i need a...RED one?????
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: takethefifth on 13 August 2006, 20:31
Yep.  Cheers Jonny!  :smiley:
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 13 August 2006, 20:35
cool thanks guys i have just found the pt number as well on a previous post, thanks to jonny.

Thanks for your help on this guys  :wink:
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 14 August 2006, 19:55
Just for reference for the future: Speedo gear, £2.70+vat, Speedo cable £32.90+vat all genuine prices.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Richie on 15 August 2006, 23:43
The same thing happened to me.
Don't forget to by the 99p circlip available separately from VAG,this holds the gear on the end of the cable and stops it falling of next time, :rolleyes:
Or you will have two gears roaming around your box like me :angry:
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 16 August 2006, 00:22
Note: The circlip will come off with a bit of persuasion, just make sure you have your hands in a box or something with a top to stop it flying off. I did it in the staff room at work and it pinged around the room and ended up in the sink. Muchos fun trying to follow it around the room with your eyes. It's a stubborn bastard i tell thee.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Judderi on 16 August 2006, 11:25
If your anywhere near me i have some gearbox oil you can have cheap. North east.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 16 August 2006, 16:58
Will the circlip not be on the new cable?
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Judderi on 17 August 2006, 08:32
Probbably not. Its like saying wont the oil filter come with the bottle of oil.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 17 August 2006, 17:04
Mmmm I spose but seeing as I bought the gear and the cable I thought it would have come with one of them but obviously not :angry:
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 17 August 2006, 18:34
No the circlip deffo doesn't come with the circlip on it. Makes good fun trying to get it off and then put it back on.  :evil:
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 18 August 2006, 12:27
OK so now i have the cable, gear and the circlip thing(a round incomplete ring of metal)
So where does the ring go ?
Does it go in the recess on the end of the speedo cable then the gear pushes onto that?

Cheers
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 18 August 2006, 13:05
Yup thats the one.
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 18 August 2006, 13:23
Cheers for that i'll have a go at fitting that later  :wink:
Title: Re: Help.... speedo cable
Post by: Dub-77 on 20 August 2006, 16:04
All sorted  :wink:
Thanks to everyone who helped my project car now has a working speedo/ MFA  :cool:

Cheers

Darren