Dales944

zehnd, Once I had it out of the car, I took a small flat-head screw-driver and slowly worked around the inside (back) of the bezel, prying it up millimeter by millimeter. It will never look original from behind, but from the front it is good. Once you get the black bezel off, the screws on the back will expose the whole thing.

Hope this helps!

zehnd

Thanks, one thing I learned was make sure you take it off very carefully as you may bend the ring, LIKE I DID! <img src="graemlins/cussing.gif" border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" />

zehnd

I opened it up and yes the gear was busted.

So I will have to pick up a gear sometime in the future.

Dennis L2

[quote]Originally posted by tsw427:
[QB]it is the little black gear [QB]<hr></blockquote>I fixed my odometer in my 84 a year ago and it was a red gear. The picture is a black one.

What color gears do the rest of you have? Should they not all be the same?

Dennis <img src="graemlins/drink.gif" border="0" alt="[cherrsagai]" />

zehnd

Mine was yellow.

Florida951

Mine was sort of a green glowing substance , weird, funny thing is I took it appart in complete darkness... good thing that gear was there.

Manning

Olli wrote:

[quote] The funniest part of this book is how to adjust the belts.They also claim it covers all models from '83-'89, but there is not a single page of S,S2 or 951. <hr></blockquote>

Yeah, the book isn't perfect, but then it is geared toward the average home mechanic who probably doesn't have a 20 ton press or the infamous timing belt tension meter sitting in his garage.

And I am pretty sure the cover of my copy it is specifically stated the the manual covers 8 valve normally aspirated models.

EDIT: Actually the cover states All 944 SOHC models and inside the book it indicates that it includes turbo models. I guess that indicates everything but the turbo and associated hardware.

John_AZ

My gear had also shifted inwards. I slid it out and repair lasted 2 days. I took it out and placed a 1/16" copper sleeve between it and the case and the repair held. My inner grey odometer gear was slipping when I checked the operation with a battery drill. I repaired grey gear by drilling a 1/16 hole off center through the gear beginning by a gear tooth valley until the bit passed the gear shaft. I tried to nick the shaft but not drill into it. Using the butt end of the drill bit I shoved J-B Weld in the hole down to the shaft. The repair has held.

Footnote: Early odometer gear from FR Wilk web address: <a href="http://944dme.tripod.com/of.htm" target="_blank">http://944dme.tripod.com/of.htm</a>

John_AZ

FR Wilk

Thanks for all the referrals.......

Actually, the dark brown gear goes in a 85MPH 924. The 170MPH early 944 gear is red, also used on the 924S.


What you have there is an oddity. It is not documented anywhere. I believe they had too many 924 gauges in the factory when they started making the 944. So they returned them to VDO who reworked them. They changed a gear set in the back somewhere. But it uses the brown gear.

They are not that common but I know that when I sell to an 83 owner, I may get it returned for a brown one.

FR Wilk
<a href="http://944dme.tripod.com" target="_blank">http://944dme.tripod.com</a>
<a href="http://early944.tripod.com" target="_blank">http://early944.tripod.com</a>
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Olli Snellman

Manning wrote:
[quote]EDIT: Actually the cover states All 944 SOHC models and inside the book it indicates that it includes turbo models. I guess that indicates everything but the turbo and associated hardware <hr></blockquote>
Haynes manual does not even cover 944 na models from 85.5 upwards.There's nothing concerning late model suspension.What comes to 951/S2, not a single word about Brembo brake calipers etc.
It's a joke to teach DIY mechanic to adjust belts with drills & paint

Olli
'88 951

Dales944

Wow, it turns out my little gear (which is red, btw) wasn't slipping at all - the actual rod(pin) that the gear is on is working itself out to the point that the red gear doesn't engage anymore. So, what I did was push the rod in until it can't go anymore (it backs up against some plastic), then slid the gear out to mesh again with the white gear. Then I put a drop of super-glue on the connection, hoping the gear (red) won't slide. If the glue holds, this "repair" should work, seeing as the rod has nowhere else to go. I'll keep you all posted if it fails.

FormulaOne10

I first fixed my odometer thinking that somehow it took 89k miles to get that plastic gear to move down the shaft. I figured that if I just slid it back into place that it would work. I put the gauge back into the car and everything worked just fine for about 30 miles. Then it suddenly stopped working again. So I took apart the gauge for a second time and saw the same problem. However, this time I made a custom spacer that wouldn't allow the gear to come down the shaft very far. So I tried this out - worked for 100 miles and now it is intermittently working. I'm eventually going to take it apart a third time but I haven't gotten around to that yet. I need a few months to forget about all the work I have already been through with that damn thing.

83na944

I fixed the odo on my '83 this weekend with the help from this thread. My gear is red. Tried the superglue trick. We'll see if it stays fixed.

The bezel suprised me. No post I've ever seen on this subject mentioned that the bezel is esentially crimped over a flange on the case. For some reason, I just assumed that the bezel was just pressed on the case which had no flange. After I figured it out, I was able to get it off with no problem.