Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> I had some weird behavior in there where the speedo would _jump_
 RJT> once you got up over a certain speed,  and bounce all over the
 RJT> place.

 JB> check the speedo too...

Check what?  It works,  most of the time.  Did I mention that this was also
temperature-dependent?  Got worse when it got colder out.

 RJT> I gave it a shot of white lithium grease down the cable at one 
 RJT> point,  and while that helped some it didn't make the problem go 
 RJT> away completely.  Maybe I oughta go down that with WD40 and give 
 RJT> it some fresh lube,  or something

 JB> atleast speedo cables can be pulled out of the sheath and dumped
 JB> into a bucket of solvent and the sheath given a similar treatment
 JB> with a funnel at the top end.

Solvent,  huh?  I wonder how that would work with carb cleaner?  I've got
this rather nasty stuff I used to clean carb parts when I did a rebuild, 
but I'm not sure how the covering on the sheath would react to that.  Too
bad I need to crawl underneath to unhook the bottom end of that from the
transmission.  I'm not too terribly inclined to do that at this point in
time.

 RJT> Tach is not currently working as I blew a fuse,  same one that
 RJT> runs the dome light,  dashboard computer,  radio presets (!),

 JB> Normally the radio presets are on the clock fuse... hmm, that'd be
 JB> dash computer I guess. 

No clock,  except the one in the radio.

 JB> but sticking it on same fuse as the dome light fuse seems odd as 
 JB> those things are easily shorted out....

I've gotten used to the radio not working.  I do need to get to the problem
that prompted all that in the first place,  though,  having to do with the
heat.  It's a vacuum leak,  apparently under the dashboard and apparently
under the driver's side.  :-(

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