lost speedo gear

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

Yeah, well there's a lesson in this.
If you don't pull the speedo cable straight out the gear can hang up on the 
inside of the case and pull off the end of the cable.
So, you need to be a little careful pulling it out. (Said the chorus girl to 
the Bishop!)
You might try  a really long set of needle nose pliers.

A friend of mine recently had the same issue. Never did get the speedo gear 
out of there but continues to drive the car.
I guess the good news is the gear is plastic and everything else in there is 
hardened metal.
If you can't fish it out of there (no way it'll come out the drain since the 
ring gear is in the way) I'd change the gear lube every once in a while to 
try to flush out the ground up bits of plastic.
Dan

From: "Nate Lowe" <nlowe79@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:18 PM
Subject: lost speedo gear


> Last time I drove the car I noticed that the speedometer wasn't
> working. Since some buddies and I had just been working on it, I
> figured the speedo cable just wasn't fully seated in the transmission.
> I was right. The problem came when I started trying to get it fully
> seated. I pulled it out and pushed it back in a couple times until I
> noticed the gear was no longer on the end of it. Sticking my finger
> into the transmission confirmed that it had come off inside the
> transmission. It also confirmed that my fingers were not quite long
> enough to fish it out, but were plenty long enough to jostle it around
> a bit and get it further lost to the point where I can't find it when
> I feel around any more. Great. Any bright ideas on how to get it out
> short of removing and dismantling the transmission? I'm gonna get one
> of those handy little tool grabby things and try that but can't really
> think of any other way if that fails.
>
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