Speedometer broke. For the second time.

Dana67Dart said
Any chance the input shaft of the speedometer/s has too much slop and if the cable puts a side load on it, it might cause a bind?

That I’m not sure of. I will have to check it. It’s a definite possibility. From what I remembered it was pretty tight.

jeffnmo said
You said you lubed it, with what. Try Graphite, it always worked for me.

Jeff

Yep. Dry graphite lube. I have a bottle of it around for things such as this

4spdragtop said
In 67 there is a small brass spacer in between cable and the speedometer. Ours was missing and caused same issue. Not sure if this applies for yours?
Try these guys?
ATP Automotive | Automatic Transmission Parts

That’s a very very good point. I will have to check. I thought I remembered the cable having a stop on it at the transmission end. But this very well could be the issue. If that’s the case we will just buy a new cable and another used speedometer head and try again. Because the money they want to repair a speedometer head, not restore the entire gauge, but just to repair the head is ridiculous.