Finally Fixed My Spastic Tachometer! But The Odometer Is Still Dead :(

[KrazyKong]

I've had all sorts of problems with my dash cluster since I got my R33 some years back. From a tacho meter that went dead, then got more spastic as the years went on, to my speedo not working, to the fuel gauge sitting at minus 50%.

I've taken the dash cluster out a few times over the years to see if I could fix it, but nothing lasted very long. So I finally went all out and resoldered all the joints on the speedo and it's been working now for over a year so that's good. I never could get the tacho working properly, but finally had a go and resoldered all the joints on it last night, and so far so good.

A few weeks back my odemeter stopped working. After checking and resoldering all the joints last night, it still doesn't work. It splutters every now and then, and might tick over 500m, maybe 1km if I'm lucky, then will stop for a week or two.

Looking at some posts here, it's possible it's a broken gear inside of it.

Now my question is, in order to get to it, I have to pull off the needle on the speedo. How do you make sure you put it back exactly how it was? By that I mean I'm confident I can push it back onto the shaft ok, but what if it turns and isn't in the exact same position as it was before I took it off. Will it reset itself? or is it going to be like if you did a timing belt, and didn't check that all the pulleys and shafts were at their set notches and positions.

[KrazyKong]

Got a little life out of the odometer on the way home. It worked for 0.5 of a km, and the stopped. By the time I had got home after a stop at the servo, it reads 1.5kms on the trip counter. So it's looking like when it does decide to turn over, it only works for 0.5km.

Has anyone else dealt with this issue before? or have tips on what else I can do to get it working again. Everything else in the cluster is now working as it should including the speedo, but alas the odometer does not want to play.

[dyl33]

There is a common problem with the odometer not working. Have a search and something should come up

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=r33+odometer+not+working&oq=r33+odomet&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l2.5292j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8