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I had an interesting ride to work this morning in my '85 M1009. About 2 blocks into the trip, I notice that the speedometer jumped from around 30mph to roughly 75mph nearly instantly, all without me noticing the fighterjet levels of acceleration that should have accompanied such a jump. As with most problems, my first quick instinct was to punch the gas pedal a bit, which probably brought me up to the 35 to 40mph range in real life, and sent my speedo zooming past 85, briefly pointing straight down, and then coming back down to around 82 or so. Slowing down for the next turn, the speedo did drop to near zero, but immediately came back up to somewhere north of 50mph before the TH-400 shifted into 2nd. This was not the typical "bouncing speedo" problem that so many have described and occurs regularly on my '84... this seems to be a speed multiplying problem. As I got onto a slightly higher speed road, with my actual speed probably in the 50mph range, my speedo was rock steady at 80mph. I also started to notice some sort of mechanical noise coming from the gauge cluster that corresponded roughly to the speed I was actually going. When I stopped, the speedo dropped to zero and the noise didn't occur, but as I increased speed my speedo outran me significantly and the mechanical noise increased. Oddly enough, my odometer still seems to be working perfectly, racking up a correct 12 miles during the trip.
I am really not sure where to even start with this particular problem, but I suppose I'll be able to fix my broken PRND21 indicator while I'm in there also. Any suggestions?
By the way, feeling the 2-3 shift when the dashboard claims you are going 75mph is an interesting experience that I don't particularly suggest anyone try if you can avoid it.
I am really not sure where to even start with this particular problem, but I suppose I'll be able to fix my broken PRND21 indicator while I'm in there also. Any suggestions?
By the way, feeling the 2-3 shift when the dashboard claims you are going 75mph is an interesting experience that I don't particularly suggest anyone try if you can avoid it.