How does that work?

 

You clamp it on the end of the cable then use some cable lube in a pressurized can and inject it inside the cable until it runs out the other end.

 

Oh, I ripped my dash out again, I tried slitting the cable case but that was not happening. Made of VERY hard plastic.

 

yeah, do recall that the plastic casing is what allows the cable to spin within and not bind on anything. its very hard because its a friction part. cutting it would not be advisable...

 

I just opened up my dash as well. Its getting easier now each time. It now takes 20 min to get the cluster out including the time to wash my eye out after getting mud in it crawling under the truck to get at the other end of the speedo cable. Loosen that off and your life will be a lot easier.

 

Yep. I have mine down to 7 mins. My speedo cable is quite easy to attach/pull off. I like how simple our trucks are.

 

well i had the ame prob in my 90 p/u and it squeeked and chirped for over 2 years the cable ended up binding up and twisting off in the housing as well as stripping out the the speed gear

 

yeah, ours simply snapped after a year and a half. we drove it a whole nother year without...

you got any more pics of your truck? looks pretty sweet!

 

It took me hours the first time til I realized that you could loosen off the speedo cable from the T-case and feed it towards and through the bulkhead.I keep loosing screws so my dash is attached with a little luck and about 4 screws.

I wet at it today and sprayed the cable with graphite until it started to run out the T-case end. I then took apart the cluster and lubed all the gears I could get at. Afterwards I packed the socket where the cable plugs into the cluster with MP grease. See how it goes.

 

Hey Matt, How were you feeding the graphite? Through that little space between the case and the cable? I jammed the end of my spray lube in there but could only do tiny amounts at a time, or it would spray back into my face...

 

Here's the genius part. You grab the end of the cable (we'll call it the "bit" as in screw driver bit) and pull it out about 3/4" (that's as far as it goes). Now that the "bit" it out of the way, you can stick one of those red straws/nozzles down it to spray in graphite lube. I was rather proud of myself for figuring that out.

 

nice solution, I will keep that in mind when I lube mine!

and Jay, are you aware of the Cap'n Crunch box that's anti-Canadian? Kind of a funny picture really...

 

Never trust an old man giving treats to young kids..

 

So far it's worked, but it only lasted a month last time when I tried lubing the cable. I didn't figure out to pull the cable out of the sheath 1" last time, so I'm doubtful much got in though.

 

Mine makes noise randomly. but I haven't noticed any spedo bounce.

 

Mine doesn't bounce when it makes noise. It bounces at low speeds and made a noise at high speeds.

 

mine goes crazy when its cold out sometimes right around 60. it screams something hellish, and the needle bounces +/- 5-7 MPH. actually pretty crazy to look at.

 

DAMN

The noise is back. After all that, it started today and wont stop. 80km/h and up, constant noise. Does anyone actually have a speedo that works properly?

 

Mine has never made noise.

 

well, now that it got warm out, mine doesn't do it anymore...