Clock question
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Frederick Maryland
There are vendors who will repair your clock but the best thing is to convert it to quartz movement. You can buy the conversion kit from any of the main Vette vendors or a complete reproduction clock with the quartz innards. Then just swap it out with your original.
I did that with both my '69 and '78 and they work perfectly and look identical to the originals. The only way it can be told that they aren't original is the stutter stop/go movement they have instead of the continuous sweep an original clock does.
Small price to pay for a clock that works.
I did that with both my '69 and '78 and they work perfectly and look identical to the originals. The only way it can be told that they aren't original is the stutter stop/go movement they have instead of the continuous sweep an original clock does.
Small price to pay for a clock that works.
Advanced
Joined: May 2006
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From: Derby Kansas
I took mine apart, filed the contacts, sprayed electrical cleaner to clean the rotating components, and then very carefully used a needle to put a very small amount of electrical contact lube on points of contact/friction. It has not worked for at least 15 years, but is now working, except when the car was setting for days when temperatures fell below about 30*. I bought the electrical contact cleaner and lube at Radio Shack.
-Jim
-Jim
Team Owner
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Crossville TN
If you are not an absolute purist [where everything has to be by the book], change out the works to a quartz movement. If you want it to 'act' like the original movement, rebuild it with a similar movement. You can get either at ZIP Products. Most other sources only sell the quartz replacement.
Safety Car
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,802
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From: Wichita KS
I've done three of them so far. Be very careful with the tabs that hold the face onto the back they are fragile and can only be bent/straightened twice at the most.
Here is a link to a document detailing the procedure:
http://members.aol.com/jjneyjr/clock/grepair1.htm
The 10 cent version is use a can of compressed air to clean it out then spray WD 40 or light weight machine oil on all the moving parts, hook it up to a battery charger or some other 12 volt source and watch it for a few days to see how fast or slow it is.
There is a lever on the back of the mechanism near the bottom, you move it to the left to slow it down and to the right to speed it up. Move it in very slight increments as it will have a major effect on the speed.
The lever is very small and it is best if you look in the rebuild document as it has pictures showing it.
cc
Here is a link to a document detailing the procedure:
http://members.aol.com/jjneyjr/clock/grepair1.htm
The 10 cent version is use a can of compressed air to clean it out then spray WD 40 or light weight machine oil on all the moving parts, hook it up to a battery charger or some other 12 volt source and watch it for a few days to see how fast or slow it is.
There is a lever on the back of the mechanism near the bottom, you move it to the left to slow it down and to the right to speed it up. Move it in very slight increments as it will have a major effect on the speed.
The lever is very small and it is best if you look in the rebuild document as it has pictures showing it.
cc
Drifting
Joined: Jul 2002
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From: The only Corvettes in Highett Victoria
Quartz IS the way!!!
Lawton,
Roughrider and others are right. Go quartz. Even I managed to fit one to my '74 and it still works five years later. And I live in the Antipodes, where water (and most clocks!) spin the other way.
Unless you have an NCRS show car and would lose points for a quartz movement, then this is the only way to go.
Regards from Down Under
aussiejohn
Roughrider and others are right. Go quartz. Even I managed to fit one to my '74 and it still works five years later. And I live in the Antipodes, where water (and most clocks!) spin the other way.
Unless you have an NCRS show car and would lose points for a quartz movement, then this is the only way to go.
Regards from Down Under
aussiejohn
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Racer
Joined: Aug 2005
Posts: 431
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From: Oita, Japan
I've done three of them so far. Be very careful with the tabs that hold the face onto the back they are fragile and can only be bent/straightened twice at the most.
Here is a link to a document detailing the procedure:
http://members.aol.com/jjneyjr/clock/grepair1.htm
The 10 cent version is use a can of compressed air to clean it out then spray WD 40 or light weight machine oil on all the moving parts, hook it up to a battery charger or some other 12 volt source and watch it for a few days to see how fast or slow it is.
There is a lever on the back of the mechanism near the bottom, you move it to the left to slow it down and to the right to speed it up. Move it in very slight increments as it will have a major effect on the speed.
The lever is very small and it is best if you look in the rebuild document as it has pictures showing it.
cc
Here is a link to a document detailing the procedure:
http://members.aol.com/jjneyjr/clock/grepair1.htm
The 10 cent version is use a can of compressed air to clean it out then spray WD 40 or light weight machine oil on all the moving parts, hook it up to a battery charger or some other 12 volt source and watch it for a few days to see how fast or slow it is.
There is a lever on the back of the mechanism near the bottom, you move it to the left to slow it down and to the right to speed it up. Move it in very slight increments as it will have a major effect on the speed.
The lever is very small and it is best if you look in the rebuild document as it has pictures showing it.
cc