swissie

As you can imagine the clock in my '66 is dead.
Now that I want to take a closer look at it, I should get it out of the dash for starters..
What is the procedure?

vetsvette2002

The easiest way I know from experience is:

Remove the radio side panels from center
Remove the glove box
remove the two retaining clips of the clock
disconnect the clock's wiring
remove the two clock lamps

clock should be in your hands

Installation is the reverse

You anywhere near Magden?

drewdog66vette

found a service on ebay that if you shipped them your clock. they would rebuild it with original or as close to for about 45 bucks. not bad at all..... shipping to europe would affect cost, but still a deal. and your euro is kicking the dollars butt lateley so you should come out ok on it. do a ebay search. clock repair or if i find the link ill paste it.

wombvette

You shouldnt have to remove the glove box. You should be able to get to the clips with just the side panels removed.

vetsvette2002

Didn't say you had to, just said the easiest from my experiences

swissie

Considering your distances I would say yes, not even 5o miles, why??

Thanks for the hints. Removing the clock in the '59 was easier...

achapman

I didn't remove the Glove Box door either, when I took mine out. I did buy a quartz conversion kit for around $60 and it was very straight forward to do. Had it back together in a hour or two and the clock in my SWC keeps great time....

swissie

For a vette crusing in the country of fine watches quartz is of course no option

vetsvette2002

Good friend there, and he drives a mid year.

Brand new old stock clock movements are available from Clock Works in Wisconsin.
They restored my 67's and it looks new and keep accurate time too. Even sent the old movement back with my "new" clock.

wayne64

Howdy,
I'm over here in Germany and have the same problem with my clock (in a 64 coupe). I also want to do the quartz conversion. Where did you get your's? I found a kit in corvette america. The same???
Thanks, Wayne

jprop

You might try a quick fix. First make sure you have power going to the clock. If that's OK pry the two halves of the case apart with a flat blade screw driver. Clean out the "guts" with some low pressure compressed air and apply light oil to the gears. There are two electrical contacts (similar to the points on the distributor) that get fouled. Clean them very lightly with some emery cloth. Plug it back in. When the points make contact, the electrical "strike" flings one of the arms up and gravity pulls it down which turns the gears. An original clock movement will produce the familiar old car tick every few minutes as the points make contact. This is one of the easier fixes on an old vette. I fixed mine about 25 years ago and it is still working. You should be able to do this in about an hour at no cost.