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I think but am not certain that 1980 had the clock in the tach pod, and this is what I am familiar with.
You do mean the capacitors, right? Are they the right value? Are they in with the correct polarity? You can hook up the clock (only) to a 9 volt transistor radio battery - OBSERVE THE CORRECT POLARITY!!!!- and put +9 to the tab that sticks out of the clock. This is isolated from the entire rest of the panel, you won't power any other gauges. Attach the ground (-) to just about anywhere else on the frame of the gauge (the spot that you hopefully resoldered at the back of the clock to the gauge frame would be fine). It should tick, and the hands will move -but be patient, it's hard to see, sort of like watching water come to boil. I know from fixing several of these that 9 volts from that particular type of battery will be enough to make it work.
I don't see how you could put the hands on so that they would hold on to the shafts but not actually move; if they don't move, there may be something other than the capacitors wrong with the clock.
I repaired 6 out of 7 clocks by just changing the caps. The seventh had damaged gears in the adjuster.
BTW, if you reversed the polarity on one or both caps, the clock might tick but not have enough power to move.
Last edited by Strife; 03-02-2007 at 11:24 PM.
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