Ga70 manual speedo cable binding/jumping

[LeaThaL]

hey all

my speedo seems to be bouncing alot below 40 now that its hot and im curious about if the cable itself is the problem or if its at the gearbox end and ive never worked on anything like this, not sure what does or doesnt need lubricating

cheers

[allencr]

...if the cable itself is the problem ...what does or doesnt need lubricating

Usually the cable needing to be CLEANED & lubed, the trans. drive gear does not.

[briney]

it's a relatively easy job to pull the inner out of the speedo cable and lube it up again. i normally just use grease. smear it on the inner and feed it back in. also check for kinks or maybe touching the exhaust.

[oldcorollas]

one of the strands may have broken off and be catching as well.. (had this happen before)
pull out to check.

[slipway]

just whack a z20 dash in there bro will be sweet.

[LeaThaL]

pffft i love my analog dash!!

so its a cable inside the visable line? cool thats what i was looking for, ive got some high temp grease here so ill remove it this weekend and have a looksee.

cheers fellas.... ill post up some pics for later refference if thats what the problem is

thanks

[big_zop]

just whack a z20 dash in there bro will be sweet.

Apart from the fact that it probably wont fit (and there is already an A70 digital dash), the main problem with that is that it still may use a speedo cable. I know that my GX81's digital dash has a cable and that the JZX81 update (91 onwards) digital dash use an electronic speedo.

[LeaThaL]

dont mind him, hes a soarer nut that hasnt seen the light let

and yeah i wondered if that was the case, cool thanks for the info zop

[allencr]

ive got some high temp grease...

Nothing high temp about it unless it's being run near the exhaust, and then it oughta be re-routed. I prefer oil but grease'll be OK if it's very light & especially if its got one of those fragile & expensive angle drives. It doesn't need the all the drag from 1M of heavy grease! Any bright worn spots on the cable, they shouldn't be there so find out why it happened, a kink or bend in its housing. Put it in & pull it out while turning to wipe it off a few times, that'll pickup the smegma inside the cable housing.

[slipway]

Apart from the fact that it probably wont fit (and there is already an A70 digital dash), the main problem with that is that it still may use a speedo cable. I know that my GX81's digital dash has a cable and that the JZX81 update (91 onwards) digital dash use an electronic speedo.

just a stab at lea for selling his soarer and hating digi dash's