1970 Speedo
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1970 Speedo
Hello, I'm redoing my dashboard and took the speedometer out. I turned the piece in the back of the speedo with my hand, and the needle moved up the MPH but didn't go fully back down, but rather stopped at ~40mph. It did continue to turn when I turned it with my hand. Is this how it's supposed to operate, or the margnet is supposed to take it down to 0. Anything else I can do to further test? lubricate? send to restoration? Thank you!
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Hello, I'm redoing my dashboard and took the speedometer out. I turned the piece in the back of the speedo with my hand, and the needle moved up the MPH but didn't go fully back down, but rather stopped at ~40mph. It did continue to turn when I turned it with my hand. Is this how it's supposed to operate, or the margnet is supposed to take it down to 0. Anything else I can do to further test? lubricate? send to restoration? Thank you!
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It definitely should drop to zero. It definitely should not go to 40 MPH turning it by hand. Maybe get the needle to bounce a bit by hand, but that's about all.
Send it off to be restored !
Send it off to be restored !
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Hello, I'm redoing my dashboard and took the speedometer out. I turned the piece in the back of the speedo with my hand, and the needle moved up the MPH but didn't go fully back down, but rather stopped at ~40mph. It did continue to turn when I turned it with my hand. Is this how it's supposed to operate, or the margnet is supposed to take it down to 0. Anything else I can do to further test? lubricate? send to restoration? Thank you!
