My speedo was bounching around (yes, I already tried lubing the cable) so I decided to replace it with a spare I had. Swapped the rollers so the mileage reads the same, and my spare was worse then the one I had, it sticks at max mph you go and won't return to 0 unles you tap on it.

So anyway - was wondering, there are lots of speedo repair shops out there, can anyone recommend one?

Also pondering doing a new dashboard w/modern gauges. What have you guys done to your dashes?

DeLuxe Speedometer and Radio
1410 Speer Blvd
Denver, CO, 80204
(303-629-6958)

Did a fantastic job rebuilding my '62 Lancer speedo, and they've done likewise excellent work on several friends' old Mopar speedos since that time.

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Yeowza, they said $85-100 Dan. More then I was expecting, starting to wonder if I should hunt for an NOS one or try my luck at the junkyards.

NOS will certainly cost more than the rebuild, and a junkyard speedo will likely be in one of three conditions:

1) Almost as worn out as yours
2) Just as worn out as yours
3) Even more worn out than yours

This is just one of those things that wears out and needs rebuilding when you drive a 3- or 4-decade-old car. Fix it once and you're good to go for another three or four decades. And it's REALLY nice not to have the speedo needle jumping around and quivering all the time!

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I took out the dash again for about 10 trillionth time in the past two days (ok, more like 5 or 6 really) and this time I lubed up the cable with a crapload of grease. I also tried to work some into the part that accepts the cable, inbetween the plastic bushing and the metal body. This was the cable between the speedo and coupler under the hood. When I replaced the rear end w/3.23's a few months back, I lubed the cable between the coupler and tranny, but perhaps it needs another coat now.

The needle is 90% smoother now, but I thought I heard a clicking. Maybe I missed something when putting it back together.... ah well... I'm starting to put some thought into doing a custom dash since this one is falling apart and cracked everywhere.

That clicking you hear is probably the shoes grazing the cup on the backside of your speedo, indicating the bearing is sloppy. When it gets a little sloppier, the shoes will hang up on the cup and fling it hard against the top stop. This usually wrecks the speedo head so it can't be rebuilt successfully.

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Well, heres the shortend verison of the whole story

My original was dancing at low speed, otherwise fine. I replaced it with my spare - that one would rise, but not come back down to zero fully. So I put my original back in, and that started to have a clicking/scraping sound. Straightend the cable, tightend everything back down, and it seems fine now.

Do you know if the newer mechanical speedos (Autometer, etc) have better mechanisms then our originals?

New mechanical speedos have the same kind of mechanisms the originals do. The originals have a very good mechanism; not sure what makes you think it's bad or inferior. It's a mechanical device; it's entitled to wear out and require rebuilding every three or four decades!

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Just didn't know if the modern ones were a better design or not, thought I'd ask instead of spending money on a rebuild only to find aftermarket ones are beefier.

So they still use the plastic bushings on the new ones too eh?

$85-100 is a pretty good price for a speedometer rebuild. Year One charges twic that much and screwed up the speedo on my neighbors Mustang.

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