My dad just passed away … the Good Lord gave him 96 yrs + a bit and as the youngest and only girl of 4..((I mayve been an oopsie at their age and ten yrs after their youngest boy🤭)) but Im in my mid 50’s for perspective 😊….. ohhhh the awesome memories and smile this video brings to me!!! Thanks so much for bringing’ all the old up to all the new 🥹👏🏼
After watching you vid on clock repair i took the one out of my 62 and cleaned the contacts and lubed it up and man shes working great.......never knew they was so easy to fix.....and to think people charge a arm and a leg to fix em when it probably was fine and just needed cleaned and lubed......thanks for the great info.....
Glad my video helped you in getting your clock going. I figure if the "experts" can do it, so can I.... so I just tear into them and figure the problem out. 98% of the time, I get good results, from a simple cleaning.
Removed and cleaned the speedometer on my 66 Dodge Coronet last year. Pulled out the cable and applied some graphite. Super easy to keep those old parts in service.
Ok now I have set this into my memory. Learn something new. Fantastic. I have always documented and changes or restore work with the odometer. Nothing changed. But this is new to me. Thanks
My needle paint came.... I want to test it, so I used the parts car speedo.... and thought I'd make the video on the odometer first. Anyway I got the dash mostly together.... tomorrows video. It looks good. Photos on my Instagram.
I sell engines and occasionally folks will ask me about resetting their odometer to zero. I’m like, “you can get a new heart, but that doesn’t make you zero years old.”
If you change all the mechanical parts in a car, the body might still rust but the car will drive just fine. Maybe it's not just the heart, gotta change all the part and just like a oil change, gotta swap out that blood also. Clone yourself some indestructible organs
Howard, you are an inspiration! What you do in a 2-1/2 car garage is just amazing!! Thank you for all the many hours of entertainment and knowledge!! Some day I’d like to shake your hand.
All this odometer talk reminds me of when I worked in the used car department fo a Cadillac dealership when I was in college. About every Friday night a really slimy guy would come in and on Saturday morning many of the cars were a lot “younger”!
I heard that it was relatively easy. But that is fairly easy to alter an Odometer. We also cannot be cetain of how far we have come, in this one, so we're not too sure of how much more usage we're going to have2 expect out of this one either. This Life has a way of showing us that our Bodies are just the Soul -driving another car. You don't know you'll be definitely be able to get another one ! Not a good idea to stint on the old Preventative maintenance. That's nearly 2 metaphores for one comment section. .and all free ! Cheers
The safer way of resetting the odometer instead of prying the old plastic and gears apart is to start at the far left digit and set it where you want. Then roll the next digit to the right until it comes to a stop. At the point you will be able to move the bar one position. Keep doing that until the bar and the digit are in the correct spots. Then move to the next digit and repeat the process, and so on. It's safer than risking breaking the gears, plastic, ect. For a seven digit odometer, it will only take about 5-10 minutes.
I'm one of those types that hands on learns.... If it docent work, I just figure I have zero to loose trying to repair something. Then I learn how to do the next one. I'v always enjoyed working on things that don't work anymore and getting it working.... no matter what it is.
Great video truly educational for older vehicles. Quick question, if someone wanted to appear as if little to no miles have been added to a vehicle, could you just take out the original odomete/speedometer reader and put a different one in there and replace it back to the original one before you give the lease vehicle back....? Or if you are selling the vehicle to carmax, etc....?
do the little gears have to be in a certain position between the numbers when at rest/ reassembling it ? if not when tab comes around might jam whole thing at any number ? only happens if you take wheels off shaft the little gears fall out . Or maybe it works by design no matter how they are positioned rotationally in U slots ( obviously right way around)
The gears need to be so all the numbers line up and line up with the opening in the speedo for the odometer. The gears will be in the correct spot as long as the numbers are all lined up evenly.
I’m looking at a ‘92 Accord right now. It’s in pristine condition, no rust, clean interior. Haven’t visited the guy yet but from the pictures the Odometer says 38900km. My concern is that the Odometer has been rolled back. The numbers don’t line up, but the guy claims the car is for his elderly father, and it is in immaculate condition judging from the photos. I’m conflicted. Any tips or advice for when I go to see it in person? The guy is asking for $9000 CAD (~$7000 USD) by the way, but i’ll talk him down close to $4000 CAD (~$3000 USD) since it hasn’t been sold in the 2 months it’s been posted.
Look at the ware on the pedals, drivers seat and carpet around the pedals. Also remove the oil cap to see if the engine is clean or full of sludge. Low milage at the end of the day docent mean a thing if the car was not maintained. Often low milage older cars were used for short trips..... a mile here a mile there is super hard on cars. I find older cars with ultra low miles, can have more issues then a well maintained high milage car.....
@@OldCarAlley Thanks for your reply, I arranged a meeting with the guy and checked the stuff you mentioned, I suspect that the dash was rolled back, lots of wear on the pedals and carpet underneath the winter mats. Good looks 👍
@@mkobd Sometime the speedos break, and get replaced with salvage yard ones, that may have lower miles showing. I always adjust the milage on a replacement, to what the original stated. Always look at the car in general. Often the cleanness will reflect mechanical care too. Often filthy cars were not maintained as well as clean cars.... From my experience in dealing with older cars. To me milage on the odometer is the last ting I look at, as often older low miles cars, have more issues than high miles older cars. The low miles ones were often short tripped..... that's the worse thing you can do to a car.
thank you for answer , say when all zeros the tab that will hit the little pinion when it comes around to turn the next wheel 1 number hits the little gear in the U slot for a short time , enough to go one number . But when you assemble it all alighbed to 0 or any number the little tab is at about 3 o click position inside the member wheel , do not touching anything . when it turns maybe 270 degrees or whatever it engages , but if that is not sitting just right it might jam ? maybe put together with it in certain position ? or maybe does not matter ? if you force it like in the video you might lose that yet it seeks to work ? try it with drill and allen cut off fits drive make sure it works not just first drum ? seems to work with gear in U left just anywhere but that seems wrong ?
I never remove the digits, I only snap them around. When the odometer is out, they have enough "play" in them to allow them to be moved easer. I have never damaged an odometer doing it the way I show in the video. I have done hundreds over the years. I like replacement odometers to show the actual miles on the old car that is getting a replacement, so I always reset them to be correct. I do them for friends that work on old cars also.
I had a 1984 Camaro years ago and changed my speedometer and when I tried to do this the numbers got a silver line through them. Later reading my owners manual it stated that this was a tamper resistant feature. I guess this started in the late 70's early 80's?
My speedometer stopped working in my 1992 Nissan hardbody. I had to drive around without a cluster for a little until it was fixed. Is their anyway I can locate anywhere on my truck to locate the exact miles to th body of my truck? Thanks
I got all the metal tabs lined up to where it fits. But when I was putting it back in, a piece of one of them broke off. Will that cause it to not work?
There almost identical.... that is common on that era Chevy.... Pop the speedo out, pull it out of the housing and flip the numbers over with you finger, without removing the odometer. Be carful not to touch the numbers GM's paint on them is poor.
CAUTION! Results are not always a given. I took my Smiths odometer apart and there are 8 springs/clips/cogs etc. at the ends of it. My speedo now needs a £150+ rebuild from a professional. I wish I had not touched it.
As far as the speedometer face, with the remnants of the previous corrosion that you mostly removed, have you thought about applying a couple coats of clear on it, then polishing, levelling the finish out? Might be worth a try on the spare speedo.
You’re right, Howard. Besides, where’s the benefit in investing hundreds of hours restoring a lovely old car, then rolling back the odometer? All that would do is diminish the significance of one’s efforts. Who, then, is the fool?
My dad just passed away … the Good Lord gave him 96 yrs + a bit and as the youngest and only girl of 4..((I mayve been an oopsie at their age and ten yrs after their youngest boy🤭)) but Im in my mid 50’s for perspective 😊….. ohhhh the awesome memories and smile this video brings to me!!! Thanks so much for bringing’ all the old up to all the new 🥹👏🏼
After watching you vid on clock repair i took the one out of my 62 and cleaned the contacts and lubed it up and man shes working great.......never knew they was so easy to fix.....and to think people charge a arm and a leg to fix em when it probably was fine and just needed cleaned and lubed......thanks for the great info.....
Glad my video helped you in getting your clock going. I figure if the "experts" can do it, so can I.... so I just tear into them and figure the problem out. 98% of the time, I get good results, from a simple cleaning.
@@OldCarAlley iv just always figured they was way more complicated to repair then that.......thanks again....
I was thinking back to the old days when most used cars had such low miles. Howard you are the best your info, is awesome
Removed and cleaned the speedometer on my 66 Dodge Coronet last year. Pulled out the cable and applied some graphite. Super easy to keep those old parts in service.
Graphite will gum up if the humidity gets high. Silicone works well.
Silicone attracts dirt, I've used graphite with no problems , so I'll stick with what works.
Ok now I have set this into my memory. Learn something new. Fantastic. I have always documented and changes or restore work with the odometer. Nothing changed. But this is new to me. Thanks
Works like a rubik's cube. Lol. Hope you had a good day my friend !!
LOL.... there super simple.
swapping my cluster out on my old yota crawler and the new cluster is about 200k less than my current one, thanks for the vid helping me out!
You showed it the very next day. I remember you said that you would consider doing this video. Thank you Howard
My needle paint came.... I want to test it, so I used the parts car speedo.... and thought I'd make the video on the odometer first. Anyway I got the dash mostly together.... tomorrows video. It looks good. Photos on my Instagram.
I sell engines and occasionally folks will ask me about resetting their odometer to zero. I’m like, “you can get a new heart, but that doesn’t make you zero years old.”
Totally!!!
If you change all the mechanical parts in a car, the body might still rust but the car will drive just fine. Maybe it's not just the heart, gotta change all the part and just like a oil change, gotta swap out that blood also. Clone yourself some indestructible organs
That clip was abich to get back on...but got er done. Thanks !!!
Howard, you are an inspiration! What you do in a 2-1/2 car garage is just amazing!! Thank you for all the many hours of entertainment and knowledge!! Some day I’d like to shake your hand.
All this odometer talk reminds me of when I worked in the used car department fo a Cadillac dealership when I was in college. About every Friday night a really slimy guy would come in and on Saturday morning many of the cars were a lot “younger”!
I heard that it was relatively easy. But that is fairly easy to alter an Odometer. We also cannot be cetain of how far we have come, in this one, so we're not too sure of how much more usage we're going to have2 expect out of this one either. This Life has a way of showing us that our Bodies are just the Soul -driving another car. You don't know you'll be definitely be able to get another one ! Not a good idea to stint on the old Preventative maintenance. That's nearly 2 metaphores for one comment section. .and all free ! Cheers
The safer way of resetting the odometer instead of prying the old plastic and gears apart is to start at the far left digit and set it where you want. Then roll the next digit to the right until it comes to a stop. At the point you will be able to move the bar one position. Keep doing that until the bar and the digit are in the correct spots. Then move to the next digit and repeat the process, and so on. It's safer than risking breaking the gears, plastic, ect. For a seven digit odometer, it will only take about 5-10 minutes.
You are fearless. You are motivational. Thank you!
I'm one of those types that hands on learns.... If it docent work, I just figure I have zero to loose trying to repair something. Then I learn how to do the next one. I'v always enjoyed working on things that don't work anymore and getting it working.... no matter what it is.
Great video truly educational for older vehicles. Quick question, if someone wanted to appear as if little to no miles have been added to a vehicle, could you just take out the original odomete/speedometer reader and put a different one in there and replace it back to the original one before you give the lease vehicle back....? Or if you are selling the vehicle to carmax, etc....?
The easiest way is to use a drill motor in reverse the easiest way is to take a drill motor and put it in reverse
That takes forever!
do the little gears have to be in a certain position between the numbers when at rest/ reassembling it ? if not when tab comes around might jam whole thing at any number ?
only happens if you take wheels
off shaft the little gears fall out . Or maybe it works by design no matter how they are positioned rotationally in U slots ( obviously right way around)
The gears need to be so all the numbers line up and line up with the opening in the speedo for the odometer. The gears will be in the correct spot as long as the numbers are all lined up evenly.
I’m looking at a ‘92 Accord right now. It’s in pristine condition, no rust, clean interior. Haven’t visited the guy yet but from the pictures the Odometer says 38900km. My concern is that the Odometer has been rolled back. The numbers don’t line up, but the guy claims the car is for his elderly father, and it is in immaculate condition judging from the photos. I’m conflicted.
Any tips or advice for when I go to see it in person? The guy is asking for $9000 CAD (~$7000 USD) by the way, but i’ll talk him down close to $4000 CAD (~$3000 USD) since it hasn’t been sold in the 2 months it’s been posted.
Look at the ware on the pedals, drivers seat and carpet around the pedals. Also remove the oil cap to see if the engine is clean or full of sludge. Low milage at the end of the day docent mean a thing if the car was not maintained. Often low milage older cars were used for short trips..... a mile here a mile there is super hard on cars. I find older cars with ultra low miles, can have more issues then a well maintained high milage car.....
@@OldCarAlley Thanks for your reply, I arranged a meeting with the guy and checked the stuff you
mentioned, I suspect that the dash was rolled back, lots of wear on the pedals and carpet underneath the winter mats. Good looks 👍
@@mkobd Sometime the speedos break, and get replaced with salvage yard ones, that may have lower miles showing. I always adjust the milage on a replacement, to what the original stated. Always look at the car in general. Often the cleanness will reflect mechanical care too. Often filthy cars were not maintained as well as clean cars....
From my experience in dealing with older cars. To me milage on the odometer is the last ting I look at, as often older low miles cars, have more issues than high miles older cars. The low miles ones were often short tripped..... that's the worse thing you can do to a car.
thank you for answer , say when all zeros the tab that will hit the little pinion when it comes around to turn the next wheel 1 number hits the little gear in the U slot for a short time , enough to go one number .
But when you assemble it all alighbed to 0 or any number the little tab is at about 3 o click position inside the member wheel , do not touching anything . when it turns maybe 270 degrees or whatever it engages , but if that is not sitting just right it might jam ? maybe put together with it in certain position ? or maybe does not matter ? if you force it like in the video you might lose that yet it seeks to work ? try it with drill and allen cut off fits drive make sure it works not just first drum ? seems to work with gear in U left just anywhere but that seems wrong ?
I never remove the digits, I only snap them around. When the odometer is out, they have enough "play" in them to allow them to be moved easer. I have never damaged an odometer doing it the way I show in the video. I have done hundreds over the years. I like replacement odometers to show the actual miles on the old car that is getting a replacement, so I always reset them to be correct. I do them for friends that work on old cars also.
I had a 1984 Camaro years ago and changed my speedometer and when I tried to do this the numbers got a silver line through them. Later reading my owners manual it stated that this was a tamper resistant feature. I guess this started in the late 70's early 80's?
Yep, that's so someone knows the milage is most likely not correct.
My speedometer stopped working in my 1992 Nissan hardbody. I had to drive around without a cluster for a little until it was fixed. Is their anyway I can locate anywhere on my truck to locate the exact miles to th body of my truck? Thanks
Can i convert my 120 km/h speedometer to 240 km/h?? Any idea or link would be obliged for
Maybe a speedo repair shop. I don't know of anyone who could calibrate it correctly......
I got all the metal tabs lined up to where it fits. But when I was putting it back in, a piece of one of them broke off. Will that cause it to not work?
Yea.... not good. It may or may not work depending on which tab end broke off.
How do you disassemble the numeral wheels My 1/10th one turns but won't rotate any other wheels like the locater pin is broken?
Some have a very small snap ring or "
E" clip to hold the digits to the shaft.
@@OldCarAlley Thanks I have to pull it apart and take a closer look
@@OldCarAlley I was able to remove the clip it was inside a collar I actually had to grind down to remove the clip but managed to get it Thanks
I have a 79 Corvette L-48. I've heard some people say that after the odometer reaches 100,000 miles, it will go back to all zeros. Is that true?
Yes it will.....
@@OldCarAlley My Vette has 91K. Thanks!
How close is this odometer to your '59 Chev? Haven't attempted to fix mine yet. So it's still stuck at 99999.9. What would you use to clean it?
There almost identical.... that is common on that era Chevy.... Pop the speedo out, pull it out of the housing and flip the numbers over with you finger, without removing the odometer. Be carful not to touch the numbers GM's paint on them is poor.
My plastic tab between the numbers, 4 and 5 digit and now it won’t stay. Where can I get a replacement odometer for a 66 ford.
I'll look, but I don't think I have the one from the parts dash. Try eBay.
👍Good stuff
Back in the 70s half the cars on used car lots showed 39000 miles....
I think it was common in that era. Thats why all the odometer laws came about.
Rolling the odo back on such old car is pointless. Everyone will just think it has rolled over once or twice.
It's not pointless if you're trying to adjust a replacement odometer to the actual milage the broken odometer states!
can back charge effect those devices via ground?
It would take forever that way.
My numbers get stuck if you hold the tabs still. I’m guessing the gears inside must be jacked up.
Maybe your not turning on them hard enough....
CAUTION! Results are not always a given. I took my Smiths odometer apart and there are 8 springs/clips/cogs etc. at the ends of it. My speedo now needs a £150+ rebuild from a professional. I wish I had not touched it.
Maybe they don't know what they're doing..... I have never had any issues reseting them.
What car is that speedometer from
The dash assembly was from a 65 Galaxie 500.
How to know if these analogue odo have been changed?
You don't, unless someone hacked it up changing it.
As far as the speedometer face, with the remnants of the previous corrosion that you mostly removed, have you thought about applying a couple coats of clear on it, then polishing, levelling the finish out? Might be worth a try on the spare speedo.
www.mgexp.com/forum/mgb-and-gt-forum.1/just-got-my-speedometer-back-from-moma.3607315/
I tried that on an old part from the parts dash.... it makes it look worse.
Noice
Work on 04 Towncar?
That I don't know...... maybe, most mechanical odometers are made basically the same.
Whoopsies 😇
You’re right, Howard. Besides, where’s the benefit in investing hundreds of hours restoring a lovely old car, then rolling back the odometer? All that would do is diminish the significance of one’s efforts. Who, then, is the fool?
Exactly.... plus the car still has 77,000 miles on it, not zero.
Rubik's cylinder...
There much simpler though
i'm not saying nothing
I was just thinking the same thing
So you’re saying something then. When you not say nothing, you say something.
wonder how many people youvve ripped off
I'v ripped no one off! I always set replaced speedo head odometers to the correct milage.