Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Odometer Fix

I received the gear to fix my odometer from IPD yesterday. I watched the included DVD and proceeded to take my dash apart. I have to admit that I went the hard way in disconnecting the boost gauge. I was trying to pull it off of an elbow, when in the end the other side of the elbow pops right off the instrument cluster. I got everything apart and found that I indeed had a broken tooth on one of the gears in the odometer. I decided that I wanted to roll the odometer forward so that it matched the actual mileage of the car. I didn't realize that this act was going to be so tough. I tried rolling the numbers manually, but they wouldn't move. I then turned the gear directly attached to the odometer and that worked, but was very slow and not comfortable on my finger. I finally broke out the power screwdriver. I used the end to sit on one of the gears and spin it around. I was able to get about 3K rolled up last night. I still have over 7K left.

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