Speed is off now

[sciroccos at earthlink.net (Jim Ruffi)]

Anybody have any thoughts on this?  Just drove the car for a bit and,
judging by traffic flow, I'd say the speedo is off by about 12-13 percent.

I did have a difficult time getting the speedo cable into the tran after I
put everything together.  I had a new plastic gasket, which fit the hole in
the trans and the cable end, but wouldn't allow the cable to fit once the
gasket was on the end...I ended up leaving it out, since my cable has that
rubber bushing-into-metal-cup setup and fit much better without, so the
cable sits 2 or 4 mm deeper in the trans now.

I checked and found that the red gear is the correct one.

The speedo may have been off before I did this work, though....I don't know.
jim

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Ruffi [mailto:sciroccos@earthlink.net]
>Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 11:27 AM
>To: Scirocco-L
>Subject: Speed is off now
>
>
>Put my clutch and .80 fifth in and everything works great, except
>for the fact that my speedo is about 10 MPH off (reads slower than
>I'm going).
>
>I didn't mess with the final drive gearing, so it either has been
>off or got messed up when I put the trans back in.  The cable
>isn't stressed or kinked and the motion of the speedo is smooth.
>It has a red gear on the gearbox end, by the way.  I don't know if
>this is the right one.  It's a 9A with 3.67 final.
>
>Any suggestions on what it might be would be appreciated.
>
>Jim