[T3] Speedo Cable Keeps Breaking

Max Welton max_welton_2k at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 24 18:33:46 PDT 2012


Squealing sounds like a speedometer problem putting stress on the cable 'till the cable breaks.

Paging Mr. Adney ... 

Max Welton
http://www.maxwelton2k.net/

--- On Sun, 6/24/12, Brent Bottolfson <brent at bottolfson.net> wrote:

> From: Brent Bottolfson <brent at bottolfson.net>
> Subject: [T3] Speedo Cable Keeps Breaking
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Date: Sunday, June 24, 2012, 7:12 PM
> I've broke 2 new GEMO speedometer
> cables now.  Seems they make it a few hundred miles
> then the squealing starts.  Once it starts, they just
> get worse no matter what I do or how I adjust, and
> eventually break at the end in the grease cup.
> 
> Maybe I'm putting them in wrong?  There's a lot of
> wires under there, and I've tried both over and under with
> the cable.  But they still both broke.
> 
> The cables are 1167mm, for a Bug (I think).
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated before I waste another $20
> on a new cable and have it break.
> 
> Wish I could have made the Invasion... hope everyone makes
> it home ok.
> 
> -Brent
> 
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