Thanks a lot, folks. I will be posting information on this as soon as I can...probably more information than I originally thought. I didn't expect as much interest as there has been...although I suppose I should have. You can always catch me at
[email protected] by the way. There are some notable challenges to converting this into a unit that could be installed in the original speedometer case, but I'm of the opinion it can be done and that will be my goal.
Phil, I've made the same offer and I've also offered to clean up the old tech tips. There are dead links, image files that are corrupted or don't connect any longer (photobucket for example plus some other extinct photo hosting services) and some of the info in the older tips is not correct. It may have been at one point but things have changed.
But back to the GPS speedometer, I do have some images I can share with you today...a peek at what I'll be soon doing to this unit. So what the hey. Let's start.
In the first image below, you'll see the original AD speedometer case. Our goal (like nearly every other project I've done around here) is to leave that as unmolested as possible. And you can see the style of it and the GPS unit are not at this point compatible. In the second image, you can see I'm using the tip of an X-Acto knife to remove two little blue plugs that cover small phillips head screws. Plugs shown in the next image. In the fourth and fifth images you can see what I have to do to remove the trim ring. Basically stick a screwdriver under the thing and gently lift up on it all the way around by twisting the screwdriver blade underneath. I had to go around it a couple of times. And then at a point I can work the blade under it and then gently work it off. Be careful. The lens in this is glass...curved slightly outward (which I found interesting). Next we'll look inside...
