12-11-2009, 12:15 AM
Sorry I didn't get any photos of the rebuild of the speedo and vacuum wiper motors. Here's a couple of the final results.
The speedo came apart easy but it was a bit tricky to get the odometer
set back to 000000, not hard, it just takes patience which I am sometimes
short of. I cleaned everything up, painted the needles on all the gages and
installed a new voltage regulator.
'66 note ... the speedo is a '66 only. If you look close the hash marks are
above the numbers. Later years have them below the numbers.
The vacuum wiper motors are interesting little machines. They have a wiper
plate inside complete with a leather sealing surface. They have a layer of
grease inside to help seal it. I completely disassembled them, cleaned the 43
year old grease out and soaked the leather seals in oil to swell them back up.
I regreased everything with multi-purpose bearing grease, carefully re-used
the old gaskets and reassembled everything.
They work great, I think. I tried to talk my wife into sucking on them but she turned me down so I did it. :xyxthumbs: They worked like a charm.
The speedo came apart easy but it was a bit tricky to get the odometer
set back to 000000, not hard, it just takes patience which I am sometimes
short of. I cleaned everything up, painted the needles on all the gages and
installed a new voltage regulator.
'66 note ... the speedo is a '66 only. If you look close the hash marks are
above the numbers. Later years have them below the numbers.
The vacuum wiper motors are interesting little machines. They have a wiper
plate inside complete with a leather sealing surface. They have a layer of
grease inside to help seal it. I completely disassembled them, cleaned the 43
year old grease out and soaked the leather seals in oil to swell them back up.
I regreased everything with multi-purpose bearing grease, carefully re-used
the old gaskets and reassembled everything.
They work great, I think. I tried to talk my wife into sucking on them but she turned me down so I did it. :xyxthumbs: They worked like a charm.
Socialism is GREAT!
Until you run out of other peoples money!
Until you run out of other peoples money!