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Originally Posted by rcounts
You must've missed my post about doing the odo repair last Friday. Instead of the screwdriver and locktite action (as shown on the DieselGiant site) I used locking pliers to knurl the shaft where the pot metal gear was slipping. Once the newly-knurled part of the shaft got to where it started to slide back into the pot metal gear, I literally had to drive it back in by tapping on it using the butt of a screwdriver. Took some pretty serious whacks ot get the knurling back into the potmetal gear (I was almost afraid it was going to split it fit so tight).
It is 100% safe to say there is NO slippage going on in this odo since all the plastic & brass gears were in perfect shape, and the potmetal gear is so tight on the shaft now.
I just drove 287 miles (measured by both MS Streets AND by my GPS) and the odo shows 281 miles. So it isn't quite as far off as I thought - only about 2% low. Close enough to not want to mess with it...
Speedo still reads 5% faster than actual speed though.
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I remember the post, just not the author. I use wire-cutters to 'notch' the shaft when I fix one of these.
Anyway, I wish my two diesels only had a 2% odometer error. I have to add about 10% to my 240D and subtract 15% from my 300TD odometer reaings in order to calculate the MPG on the two cars!
Happy Motoring, Mark