Heads up for older car owners

[Big Blocker]

Just a heads up for the guys (and girls) owning an older car that uses one of the original reverse rotation speedometers with the right-angle adapter and is cable driven . . . these need to be lubed along with your normal preventive maintenance routine.



I was out last weekend, going to my Saturday morning Cars & Coffee gathering and noticed that my cable driven speedo pointer was jumping around a bit. Truefully, I hadn't thought about the right-angle adapter or the cable in it's jacket for a few years - the "twitching" was the tell-tale sign that I hadn't serviced it in a while.



Pulled the dash and disconnected the speedo drive, lubed the cable, the cable jacket and the adapter with a quality grease and all is good.



Just a heads up



Doc

[SerpantFL]

Doc, Saw the title and immediately opened the thread only to find out that the "older" was the vehicle not the owner. Whew. Easier fix than getting younger... Thanks

[Big Blocker]

Yeah, shoulda posted it as heads up for older vehicles . . . left the "owner" part out. Ha!

Doc

[Vegasjack]

Doc, mine only starts jumping around a bit at 120 MPH in reverse. So I will it on my list first thing. Hope to make it to C&C soon.