bouncing needle

[DansGreyMj]

i just did a guage swap, how do get my speedo to read out a constant speed instead of bouncing

[CWLONGSHOT]

Your speedo cable needs lube. Its a pain in the arse to do. Try removing the gages and spraying in some dry lude. Trouble is you never know where the dry/unlubbed spot is. It could be at the bottom......

 

CW

[87manche]

also make sure that you don't have any sharp kinks in it.

[Quartzprism]

i just did a guage swap, how do get my speedo to read out a constant speed instead of bouncing

 

New here and just getting the lay of the land with all the topics and forum at this site.. I recently pulled my Comanche apart (( I mean "'apart"" )) and working the dash and instrumentation (( because it was evident the previous owner had ""modified it"" )) I discoverd a kind to the speedometer cable just behind the speedometer head connection.. I gingerly reworked the kink as straight as I could make it and the flutter to the speedometer needle I had seen when I drove the Jeep home the first day I bought it, smoothed out..!

I like the easy ones.

Not saying there may be need for some lubrication, but for all the work I have done on vehicles, I have not often seen that be the case. then,, I've not been much around jeeps until now..

Best I can,

Thomas

....there are old off-roaders and bold off-roaders, but no old-bold-off-roaders...

keep it together!

[Oizarod115]

i think there is more to it than lube cause my bro bought a whole new cable pre-lubed and put even more on it and it still bounces... idk mine does it but its not bad enough to bother me.

 

-nick