Quartz Clock Movement Question
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Racer
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Quartz Clock Movement Question
Hello All,
I'm in the middle of refreshing my dash cluster, clock, glove box, and speaker replacement. My clocks runs just fine, except I am unable to change the time. I would pull the set stem, turn it and get very little movement from the hands. I could tell there was some obstruction by the resistance.
So I've now removed the clock and have discovered somebody beat me to replacing the original mechanical movement with the quartz movement.
I'm able to manually rotate the white motor driven gears with my fingers, which then rotates the metal and red plastic gears and the hand movement works just as expected. However, when I try to rotate the small red gear (1-yellow arrow) that is engaged by the set stem when pulled, it simply can not generate enough torque to rotate gear 4 (orange arrow).
It almost seems like gears 1, 2 and 3 should lift off gear 4 in order to freely set the clock hands. Am I missing a piece?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rick
I'm in the middle of refreshing my dash cluster, clock, glove box, and speaker replacement. My clocks runs just fine, except I am unable to change the time. I would pull the set stem, turn it and get very little movement from the hands. I could tell there was some obstruction by the resistance.
So I've now removed the clock and have discovered somebody beat me to replacing the original mechanical movement with the quartz movement.
I'm able to manually rotate the white motor driven gears with my fingers, which then rotates the metal and red plastic gears and the hand movement works just as expected. However, when I try to rotate the small red gear (1-yellow arrow) that is engaged by the set stem when pulled, it simply can not generate enough torque to rotate gear 4 (orange arrow).
It almost seems like gears 1, 2 and 3 should lift off gear 4 in order to freely set the clock hands. Am I missing a piece?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rick
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Also on the bottom of #4 there is a little clutch that slips when you turn the set ****. Try to lighten up or lubricate that.
I bet that's it.
I bet that's it.
Last edited by 426 Hemi; Dec 13, 2017 at 10:33 AM.
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Racer
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Thanks!
Rick
