So, I got around to fixing my speedo driive some time back. Got the correct gear with matching drive. The OEM gear had popped off before I got the transmission. New speedo head. Speedo operated fine and correctly for a little while. Then the needle started pulsing. Then no speedo. Figured the drive gear popped off again. It did. I put the gear back on but this time, left the cable disconnected. Oh, I had put a new cable in some time ago. Chassis Engineering trans cross member. My own bracketry to use the '86 'Vette trans. I have a VSS driven directly off the trans. See pic. That put the cable end and housing in to the cross member a bit. I figured that and the curve to head up front created enough of a bind to make the drive gear pop off. My current fix. I'm waiting for a 90* drive that I'll put on the VSS, then the cable to give the cable a more direct route and, hopefully, take all bottom end bind out. Thoughts?
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