FreeEMSFred
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- Nov 2, 2009
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About 6 months ago I ordered my second and third set of Dave Barton odo gears, this time 2 sets for the 240 clusters, one was needed then and done then, and the other bound to be needed and done a day or two ago. Tonight I put the cluster back in and went for a short drive to the hardware store. On the way home I heard the tick tick, just like the other 240 I had done 6 months ago. The two were a bit different, though, the one I did a while back, and my 740 sedan one, both super crumbly/weak, whereas this recent 91 240 gear though it had lost 2 teeth was still kinda solid, but flexible, took a bit of force to fold it in half. In any case, the odo didn't tick before, and now it does. Which is when it hit me, they made them soft becaue it's a luxury car and they wanted the odo to be quiet despite being run by a stepper motor. So now with hard plastic in there you hear it quite clearly. Hmmmm. I don't recall hearing the 740 one after I did it, nor since. Maybe a better insulated cluster design or something. But both 240s with hard gears now tick almost annoyingly. So what I may attempt to do is copy these plastic ones out of some grade of urethane and see if I can make a quiet replacement gear to restore that silky luxury to my precious champagne coloured 240 wagon. Excuse the run on paragraph, it's late, and I'm tired. Hope this inspires someone to make a quiet and reliable odo gear themselves.