[T3] Type 3 speedos

[Robert Rogers]

Since we are on the subject of speedos,I installed without difficulty, the replacement speedo in my '67 Fastback Jim brought to the Invasion. I have not tested it as yet but I suspect it will work well.  Jim, if you need the old speedo for parts, let me know and I will send it to you. 


-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org>
>Sent: Jul 1, 2012 8:12 PM
>To: type3 at vwtype3.org
>Subject: [T3] Type 3 speedos
>
>After Bobnotch's Type 34 speedo died on the way to Co. Springs, 
>someone gave him a Beetle speedo of the same vintage in the hope that 
>parts from it could be used to repair Wolfie's speedo. The input 
>shaft from that Beetle speedo turned out to be a perfect replacement, 
>but I was surprised to find that it was quite different from the ones 
>from '71 and later that I usually deal with.
>
>Today, while trying to clean things up around here a bit, I parted 
>out a '70 speedo and found that it also had the same early style of 
>input shaft. This was a very late '70, actually dated 9/70, but it 
>didn't have the trip odometer, so it was actually a '70 and not a 
>'71, in spite of the date.
>
>In the process of saving what I could out of it, I discovered that it 
>had some features that were different from the '71 and later versions 
>that I often repair. I'd never been asked to repair one of the early 
>ones and now I know why: They are much better made than the later 
>ones. When VDO added the trip odometer in '71 they also cheapened up 
>part of the odometer drive. The result of this is that the late 
>design often fails and I get to fix it. If VDO had stuck with the 
>heavier duty part the later odometers would never fail. 
>
>I had always assumed that the design I was used to seeing had been in 
>use for a long time. Turns out that it was just a cheapening of the 
>product introduced in '71.
>
>That's sort of a disappointment, but at least I have a good way to 
>fix them.
>
>-- 
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>Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
>Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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