MM993

I just had the car up on jack stands for a few days (SSK install) and once back on the ground the Odometer stopped working. Could this just be a coincidence or did I disconnect something by picking up the car up and then down? I wasn't close to any wiring under the car. The Odometer was fixed about 8 years/15K miles ago by a PO. 46K miles on the clock now.

Thanks for any advice!

Floodj

Does the speedometer work? If so my first thought would be the notorious Odometer gear. Do a search here and on PCA.org and you will find plenty of information about how to fix it.

MM993

Floodj; Yes the speedo works, and I have checked out the great DIY video for fixing the gears. I just wanted to get any other feedback before I pull everything apart.

nile13

Yep, gears. A search would bring up dozens of posts on this.

MM993

Nile13, Did the search, just making sure. Thanks

e9stibi

I just had mine repaired by North Hollywood Speedometer for 130 usd. Highly recommended.

nile13

No problem, Mike. I was just pointing out that I have not seen any other reasoning for this issue, unfortunately, when I was doing mine.

IXLR8

If you plan on doing the repair yourself, Odometer Gears has the parts and they also show PDF installation instructions.

MM993

Thanks guys, off to get new gears this week. e9stibi - thanks for the recommendation for NHS.

vincer77

I started to do the gears myself but saw that I was going to mar the housing too bad. Sent it to No. Hollywood and it came back beautiful.

DocTock993

Another vote for North Hollywood for a gear replacement.
Fast and professional work.

MM993

Follow up to my Odometer issue. It turned out to be just a coincidence after working on the car for other things. Timing is everything!

Major thanks to Marc/Mgianzero for his DIY video on replacing the two gears without taking the whole thing apart. I did review the DIY’s from Pcar.com and Odometers.com to be as educated as possible, but Marc’s video made everything very clear. Odometers.com made it easy to order the gears online and I got them in 3 days.

My overall 2 cents is as follows; It’s not a hard DIY at all, just take your time. Buy both gears; I was shocked to see the large gear being the problem vs the normal smaller gear.
The advice of cleaning everything out with compressed air for any broken teeth is correct, however in my situation, I needed to pick out all the teeth wedged in the large inside gear with a paperclip. I also recommend a jewelers loop/magnifying glass to inspect the inside gear from all angles. A must is to get the type of thin tweezers Marc used in the video; they would have cut my time easily in half vs regular tweezers. The photo shows the new gears and my old large melted gear with all the teeth I pulled out.

gaby1088

wow crazy how they get!! my odometer is working fine, but for X reason i have to tap on my speedometer for it to measure speed, the odometer still works though jaja.

nile13

You have cold soldered contacts in the speedometer more than likely.

os993

Palo Alto speedometer also does a good job fixing this.

They say NEVER reset your odometer while in motion - that screws up/breaks the gearing.