I just bought a '90-'91 PI instrument cluster from a forum member, who tells me that the odometer/ trip meter gears have stripped out.
My own car's gears work, at any rate, though I have not pulled them out to see whether they might be on their way to becoming worn out.
I went to odometergears.com and was floored by their asking price: $96 for a set of 2sets (2 worm gears, 2 pinion gears), + shipping!!
Looking on ebay I only found minutely cheaper; $88 shipped for the same. I really can't justify that. I'm already spending $65 on the instrument cluster, $60 for matching black gauges, and might want to spend $100 on a fuel sending unit (mine works, and can't explain what hte fuel gauge is doing, but the resistance values are too high and it throws my readings off), so ANOTHER $100 just for 4 teensy plastic gears.... really, are there no cheaper options?
Should I just use mine? They're 120,000 miles old. I won't know how they look until I pull the instrument cluster back out, probably, only when I'm doing the swap.
There was a statement, on MSG, that the white gears last forever and the black ones wear out; different plastics.
If mine are white and apparently unworn, definitely reuse them? I don't know which years/models/clusters had the better plastic and which had the softer plastic.
thanks!
-Bernard
My own car's gears work, at any rate, though I have not pulled them out to see whether they might be on their way to becoming worn out.
I went to odometergears.com and was floored by their asking price: $96 for a set of 2sets (2 worm gears, 2 pinion gears), + shipping!!
Looking on ebay I only found minutely cheaper; $88 shipped for the same. I really can't justify that. I'm already spending $65 on the instrument cluster, $60 for matching black gauges, and might want to spend $100 on a fuel sending unit (mine works, and can't explain what hte fuel gauge is doing, but the resistance values are too high and it throws my readings off), so ANOTHER $100 just for 4 teensy plastic gears.... really, are there no cheaper options?
Should I just use mine? They're 120,000 miles old. I won't know how they look until I pull the instrument cluster back out, probably, only when I'm doing the swap.
There was a statement, on MSG, that the white gears last forever and the black ones wear out; different plastics.
If mine are white and apparently unworn, definitely reuse them? I don't know which years/models/clusters had the better plastic and which had the softer plastic.
thanks!
-Bernard
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