lost speedo gear

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

My 85 had two of them in it.  Don't ask it was before I had management.

On Nov 22, 2007 4:55 AM, Dan Bubb <jdbubb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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