Davedstone
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After months of working on the car (dashboard removed) replacing wiring and sorting out gauges where they make electrical contact with the PCB with everything back in place now, I decided to take my car for a short drive and everything behaves as it should do aside from the speedometer is no longer working which before removal, it did so, perfectly. So back home and removed the complete dashboard assembly and double checked the correct insertion of the speedo cable which enters the small gearbox on the rear of the speedo and it seems fine.
So removed again and inserted a small screwdriver into the gearbox which sits on the back of the speedometer and turned counter clockwise and the needle moves off zero as expected but when looking at the square drive within the rear of the speedo gearbox, this looks nice and square, but the cable which goes into this, the squareness seems to be smaller. Should there be some form of step-up which slips over the cable which would then insert into this gearbox? I can't imagine the cable from the gearbox is damaged. It is certainly not snapped as I tried to rotate the cable and it won't, which would indicate it is fine. Everything worked before.
I welcome any suggestions.
Thanking anyone in advance for any assistance.
Best regards, Dave
So removed again and inserted a small screwdriver into the gearbox which sits on the back of the speedometer and turned counter clockwise and the needle moves off zero as expected but when looking at the square drive within the rear of the speedo gearbox, this looks nice and square, but the cable which goes into this, the squareness seems to be smaller. Should there be some form of step-up which slips over the cable which would then insert into this gearbox? I can't imagine the cable from the gearbox is damaged. It is certainly not snapped as I tried to rotate the cable and it won't, which would indicate it is fine. Everything worked before.
I welcome any suggestions.
Thanking anyone in advance for any assistance.
Best regards, Dave