Speedo issue

[sedanman]

this is interesting to say the least, my odometer still works while driving down the road but the needle for the mph is stuck under the resting pin at zero.

i've searched multiple times and found many pages about the speedos having a common problem, but i wasnt too sure if my speedo was fried because the odo is still turning.

Think if i take off the trim and turn the needle around to the correct side it might fix it? This cluster is only in here until i get a tach cluster to swap in. But until that point it'd be nice to know how fast im goin... ya know?

Thanks for any help
-Nick

[sleepingciv]

u need a new cluster your spring and broken it sounds lik

[sedanman]

thats what i thought at first... but when i shut the car off, the needle drops down with gravity and chills by the trip odo, but when i turn the ign. on it rises up and presses against the bottom end of the resting pin... hmm...

[sleepingciv]

kinda car u have?

[sedanman]

93 EG, 5 spd.

[sleepingciv]

ya its a electric speedo unit.thats why it moves with key turned on anf off
u just need a new cluster man.

[sedanman]

ok. just baffled me a little that the ODO would turn over but the speedo wasnt workin... and since it would move off the floor with the key on, it didnt quite seem like the tension was shot...
thanks.

[sleepingciv]

u can always try a diff cluster to check , but that what it really sounds like to me man.

or take it apart and see whats up in there

[sedanman]

i dont think it's worth it to tear into it now and then again to do the cluster swap, when i et ready to swap inthe tach cluster, ill fiddle with it and see if the needle just needs reset, andthen i can sell the old cluster accordingly...