Thanks, Stephen. I check the Samba thread. They're all concerned with
fixingthe odometer. Noone really touched on taking the speedo apart further.
People have done it. I don't know what they did with the spiral spring upon
reassembly.

BenT

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>wrote:

>      Don't know how far you intend to disassemble yours or for what
> reason, but I only needed to get to the gears so that I could fix the
> odometer.  Once I removed the needle and face I unscrewed the four screws
> that hold the clear plastic gear holder to the black plastic base and could
> pull it out just far enough (outward travel stopped by the spiral spring on
> its shaft) to gain access to the gears by a little additional persuasion.
>
> I never took apart the back part where the speedo cable enters the
> mechanism.
>
> I had a link to some pix that I now can't find, but there are numerous
> helpful threads on Samba if you search "odometer."
>
> Stephen
>
> --- On *Fri, 7/23/10, BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>* wrote:
>
>
> From: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Need info on dismantling speedometer
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 10:35 PM
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to take apart a Vanagon speedometer. Need some advice before my
> experiment turns into an unmitigated disaster.The speedo is now out of the
> cluster. The needle and faceplate is off. Four screws and seven years
> ago...
> I mean, four screws taken out. Questions:
>
> 1) What is holding it together? There's a brass fitting of some sort
> holding
> it on the pin for the needle. Looks scary to remove because getting the
> right tension will be a challenge.
>
> 2) How is that white nylon tail piece attached? It's the part where the
> cable goes in. It looks like it might spin off because there are three
> slots
> for maybe a special tool? Or does it just pop off somehow.
>
> That's it for now.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> BenT
>
>
>

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BenT