Re: [AMC-List] 65 American speedo

["Gary L. Kirk" <glkirkbuilders@xxxxxxx>]

Frank, thanks much for this. I will look into it when I get some time. 
Thanks again, Gary Kirk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <francis.swygert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <glkirkbuilders@xxxxxxx>; <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: [AMC-List] 65 American speedo


> 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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