Kerry,
any use spraying some silicone in there or some brakeclean then silicone?

mine sticks on both 7's and 9's. i drove to cincinatti and back to day and only went 4 miles :p

the dealership is confused when i do oil changed every 100 miles


I think that next grille badge is a long ways away

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No. There are write ups here explaining how to fix it. A plastic gear is slipping on the shaft. Shaft needs to be roughed up to stop the gear from slipping.

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thanks. I couldn't fathom 15mpg. I'll check the speedo threads.

http://dieselgiant.com/repairyourodometer.htm
oh, and more than likely, the gear that's slipping is potmetal, not plastic. if you have a plastic gear problem, you are going to need parts.
search under my name for odometer repair, I have posted some tips and such... that expand on DG's pictorial

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My mistake, it's been a while since I had mine apart. I didn't use locktite on mine, just put some serious burrs on the shaft with a pair of vicegrips. It's held up for 40k miles.

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1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

if the gear is slipping no the shaft, I would think you can put some epoxy on it. Are you able to disassemble the odo, and get it back together and still work properly? I've seen many speedos/odo's that never line up after taken down.

If you follow the directions on the dieselgiant link, it's a pretty simple repair. Isn't loctite a form of epoxy?

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

loctite makes dozens of products and I'm assuming that one of them acts like a two part epoxy mix. I don't know what kind of stress is on the gears, so epoxy to me would be a very durable repair. probably have to take the smoothness out of the shaft for the epoxy or loctite to get a better bite.

The difficulty of gluing the pot metal gear without gluing the parts that need to spin, led me to avoid the whole gluing process. A roughed up shaft worked fine in my case.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

That has also worked for me.

Me too.

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