*#!&ing speed-o gear

[calimus@techography.net (calimus)]

Whoever that guy you know is, tell him he's a damn god.  Dropped in some
gear oil (tranny needed it anyway) let the car idle a bit, nothing
happpened.  Reved the car a bit and the gear popped into view.  Used a claw
tool to grab it and 20min later I have a working speed-o in the wifes cabby
for the first time in a year.  Figured since she wasn't home and I just put
that speedo in and upgraded to 14" tires, the cabby needed a test drive.

I'm beyond pleased.  The ride is smoother and I can see how fast I'm going
as well.  Thanks to all that replied, the wife is now about 15min from home
and she has no idea that she's going to get to drive her cabby to work
tomorrow :-)

William
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Erickson" <ranahan@charter.net>
To: "calimus" <calimus@techography.net>; "Scirocco-l"
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: *#!&ing speed-o gear


>
>
> Actually, the odds are pretty good.  I got mine out that way.  There's
> another guy I know of that lost his gear and it disappeared out of
> sight.  He started the car and let it idle in neutral (no gears
> turning).  There was enough oil movement to cause the gear to float by the
> speedometer cable hole (yes, it floats!) and he nabbed it.
>
> HTH
>
> John.
> Long Beach.
>
> At 11:39 PM 8/13/2002 -0400, calimus wrote:
> >Well, I finally got around to slapping the gti rims & tires that my wife
got
> >from Brian H while up in Cincy on her cabby.  Figured since I made it
that
> >far I would put the new speed-o cable in as well.  A friend dropped by
and
> >figured he'd lend a hand so while I was looking at some things under the
> >car, he went to pop the new cable in.  Well as luck would have it, he
dind't
> >notice that there was a circle clip on the old gear&cable so when he put
the
> >gear on the new cable and when to put it back into the tranny, the gear
came
> >off and down in the tranny it went.
> >
> >So, after many choice words were said, I'm now stuck.  I really, really,
> >really don't want to have to drop the tranny outta the car.  What are the
> >chances I could snake a grabber tool (little 3 claw thing) down in there
and
> >fish the damn thing out?  Or is there another way to get at the dam thing
> >without having to drop the tranny?  I can't see one but I figure my
friend
> >can't be the only person to ever do this.
> >
> >William
> >
> >
> >
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