EA81 Speedo heads

[Step-a-toe]

Anyone done rebuild or rebuild blog on these?

Guessing it has been easier to just bring another in, foregoing the odo difference

My very first Brumby had 088,000 on it forever until the speed indicator also crapped out.

Always thought it had near 700,000 km on it when I got it, maybe it had turned around once already?

The wear and tear on the seat belt, floor mat, brake pedal rubber and dashtop was sunburnt to billy-o

She was on her second engine, second gearbox...

It lived in northern NSW where the heat would have been harsh on the speedo gear grease on the nylon cogs that I think drive the odo cogs rather than speed needle

Melted grease, dried out and chewed out just like the one I got some time back 149,000 km. I coaxed the grease back into the nylon cogs and got another 3000 km before she stopped accumulating figures continuously

Curious if Nissan of same era had speedo units that parts could be pilfered from. But being Nissan, that'd be rarer than same era Subes

Small main axle on speedo seems to be first hurdle where it is crimped into place. Bettin' it breaks on remove and refit

[el_freddo]

I too looked into this. But that pressed fitting would never be the same if you tampered with it. 

Interestingly, from what I remember of modifying the odometer reading on a six gauge long cluster (only so it read the same as the factory cluster it was being converted from), you can remove all these bits. So I don’t know why they changed the setup from one to the other, it makes sense to share the same bits between models - but then again, it was the 80’s! 

Cheers 

Bennie