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In article <6je115dpcluqk61oasj1lonnlnr5sjbcbm@4ax.com>, Zain wrote:
>On Sat, 16 May 2009 06:13:23 GMT, someone@some.domain wrote:
>
>>>>Are you sure it's not the cable, instead of the cluster?
>
>>>Zain asnwered:
>>>Yep. I replaced the cable 2 yrs ago and within 6 months I started
>>>getting the same whinning off and on, then eventually became
>>>near-constant, (when it occurs the speedo needle rides up to about
>>>80mph and "shudders" there). So I thought maybe I got a bad
>>>cable/whatever.. and finally got around to getting it replaced again a
>>>month ago. Had a different shop do it and they said they could not
>>>guarantee it was the cable, and might be the speedo gears. I said just
>>>replace the cable and lets see how it goes. The noise was gone and I
>>>thought it was fixed, but then the other day I heard the vibration
>>>building but then it went away... then a day or so later it made the
>>>same old sound for a few seconds. Hasn't happened again yet, but I
>>>know where this is headed.
>>>
>>>Wonder why a new cable temporarily made it better, if it was the
>>>gears? I did ask them to lube the gears, but that seems unlikely to
>>>have been the reason it was good for a month.
>
>>had that problem with my supra. cables are hard to find and expensive.
>>so hard that i went to a pick and pay. there i found there are 2 cables and
>>the short, easy and cheap one was to blame. this was after paying a shop over
>>$100 to fix the long, hard expensive one.
>
>So, you're saying it wasn't the gears in your case, but that you had
>gotten a short cable when the long one works better?
>
>>just in case, i bought both at the pick and pay fo $25. both got the soak,
>>clean and new lube. and now i have a spare expensive on.
>>so just in case, make sure you aren't half way fixed.
>
>Thanks!
it was the shorter of the 2 cables a supra uses. lunkhead mech didn't know.
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