Speedometer, Turn Signals

[roryd]

Please email me at roryd21@gmail.com if you can answer any of these questions for me, THANKS!!

[FJmonkey]

My speedo went bad like this:

http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?topic=759.0

Email sent as well.

[andyb]

Loud whistling and a bouncing speedo?  The speedo cable itself is really a super tight and long spring.  Wouldn't be surprised if you could fix things very quickly.... remove the bottom connection of the speedo cable to the speedo drive unit.  Pull the long springy bit out of the cable.  Coat it in your favorite grease (not KY... permatex's shiny silver antiseize is what I use, but a more normal grease would work as well, prolly).  Reassemble.  Shooting WD40 around the wheel bearings and drive and such is all up to you, but it could help a bit.

Possible the speedo itself went bad, but more likely that the cable's sticking a bit at some point, and then it loads and unloads (winds and unwinds... y'know, like a spring, eh?) and that makes things bouncy.

[Dan Filetti]

Loud whistling and a bouncing speedo?  The speedo cable itself is really a super tight and long spring.  Wouldn't be surprised if you could fix things very quickly.... remove the bottom connection of the speedo cable to the speedo drive unit. 

If you remove the cable entirely it'll 'fix' it too.

Just sayin.

Dan

[andyb]

Maybe... the sender rotates too, so there's a chance the squeak is from that.  The bounce isn't, though.