Re: [AMC-List] 65 American speedo

[<francis.swygert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary, I bet that's not the original trans! Sounds like the speedo is
being driven backwards. What year is the car? 64 and later Americans, 63
and later Classic/Ambo have the speedo cable driven UNDER the output
shaft. If you look where the abcle comes out of the trans it's low
enough you should be able to tell it's driving under the shaft. If not,
pull the cable from the trans and then you can look in the hole and tell
that the speedo cable gear is under the output shaft for sure. Sounds
like yours is driven from ABOVE the output shaft like PRE 64 Americans
and PRE 63 Classic/Ambo. I had the same problem with a 63 American which
had a later model 65 transmission. The cable gears are the same as I
recall, but the gear on the shaft is different and must be chagned also.
What I did was get an early model extension housing and swap it and the
gear. As long as the trans model is the same (in this case a T-35), the
extension housings will interchange. You might be able to just change
the gear on the shaft without changing the extension housing, I'm not
sure. The high mounted gear is difficult to get the cable in on a later
model car though. That's what makes me think you have a 64 or later car
with an earlier transmission housing. You don't have to remove the trans
to get the extension housing and speedo drive gear off. The gear is held
on by a large snap ring -- the kind that's hard to get off unless you
have the special tool to do it, but once the ring is off the gear slides
right off. 

-----original message -----------------------
Date: Monday, June 19, 2006 08:42 AM
From: Gary L. Kirk <glkirkbuilders@xxxxxxx> 
Frank, The problems are, this one swings wildly from 0 to 120 wheras the
other one just jumped a little and clicked annoyingly loud. I put in a
new
cable which turned out to be a little long. There fore first thing the
plastic insulation got a little melted but I don't think it hurt it. It
seems to spin fine and smoothly. BTW the tranny has to be just about
removed
to get new cable in.
Both the heads seem to be not too dirty. Is there a mechanism inside the
bell?


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