Ok my speedo cable appears to be kaput!
Is it an easy-ish job to replace?
Or is it a fiddly farty hours long job for the inexperienced?
What are we dealing with here?
Talking 72S bug...
Eazy - peezy! :P
Just to make sure - it clips into the hub of you front passenger wheel. There should be a clip on the little nipple (snigger ...snigger). Now look where the cable feeds up to the speedo.
Not sure about a 72 but earlier ones you attacked from inside the boot area, my 74 you pull the speedo out from the inside.
There "should" be enough give in the wires attatched to get your hand round the back and di connect.
Ummm..... dont reef it out or you will break all the wires. At best you will have no idea where they go.
Now "just" slide the old one out and slide the new one in.
just make sure it isnt the speedo that is dead. Disconnect the two ends and see if you can spin the cable.
On mine the cable was OK but the speedo had locked tight.
Another time the square hole in the "hub cap" had rounded out and wasnt turning the cable.
Futue te ipsum!!!
You should have gotten one of those on Sat morning James. How did the coil bracket go.
Ah sounds easy thanks Blue.
I changed the speedo over - no go - must be the cable i assume.
I didnt know it was the cable at that stage Dave!
Bracket went well - but the b*tch still isnt acting right....
i dont know whats wrong with it, but it keeps missing and lets out the occasonal huge backfire.
I think maybe a major service is needed but im out of $$ at the moment 🙁
put it in the way it comes out!!!!!
cheers
rhys
it aint just cool its aircool'd
James check the simple things first
are the points clean and set to the right gap 0.016 "
it sounds like points to me.
Then check the timing
Oh forgot the speedo cable ... jack the car up n rotate the wheel with the cable disconnected... u should be able to see it rotating
might be the square drive on the grease cap has been rounded, n not connecting with the cable square drive.
chuck some grease down the speedo cable to otherwise it will bounce like mine is now !
what grease should i use??
:bounce
timing - grrrr.....
Can timing be adjusted without a timing gun?
Timing tends to go over my head so i leave it for a mechanic usually.
009 dizzy
You can but it wont be correct it will be close but probally will use more fuel
Not fussed right now as long as the bastard stops coughing and farting and backfiring now and then....
How do i go about it Dave?
and should the timing be different as i want to switch over to premium unleaded full time...
[Edited on 16-4-2003 by Quickbug]
Yr at Roselands now ???
Call around to my place between 5.00 n 5.30 or so tonite i will adjust
So it the bug going any better now its got a 0.016" gap in the points ???
Tons better Dave - thanks a heap again.
😀
Will try and get down to VVDS one afternoon next week as i have a few 100k's drive up the country on thursday night and id like to get the points replaced before i do that trip.
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