Broken Brand-New Speedo Angle Drive
So, installed a new angle drive to fix my original that was leaking. Went for a drive out to the desert, doing the "Pines to Palms" highway, and on the way there my speedo stopped working. Also meaning my odometer stopped working too, which I use to gauge when its time to fuel.
Huh.
Well, no biggy, I can drive without a speedo. I drove another 140 miles and arrived in Thermal, CA.
So I removed the angle drive and spun the cable, and the speedo jumped. So, the cable isn't broken.
Oh, easy: that metal disc (along with the nylon worm gear and it's shaft) spits out onto the road spontaneously without permission. I learned to epoxy (JB Weld) that metal disc into the angle drive. To remove it, the tiny, weak stakings in the plastic housing can be relieved with a Dremel bur, or the epoxy relieved the same way.
Always epoxy that metal disc into the angle drive, folks!