Re: trembling speedo (5000)

[Albert Ng <ang@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>]

Hi Ernest,


Do those '87 5kcsts have such OXS light??


Thank You

Albert 


On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Ernest Wong wrote:

> Hope everyone is having a sweet weekend.
> 
> Finally dug into my instrument panel this morning to exorcise the OXS
> light. Took about little over an hour since I had no idea where all the
> screws were and how hard to pull on things. (Haynes manual did help a lot)
> 
> Got everything together after killing the light. Did think very hard about
> yanking the OXS bulb out but didn't.
> 
> Now speedo trembles. I noticed a lot of grease on the bayonet mount. Wuz I
> supposed the wipe off the grease from the center spinner on the cable or
> lump more grease in there?
> Any worldly advise appreciated. Probably didn't work the first time since I
> didn't do any $$$ fiscal donation to the gods. Just time.
> 
> 
> Now how hard would it be to wedge a V8 from a junked 92 on V8 into the
> engine bay of a 5Kq. Hmmmm.
> 
> 
> BTW, the OXS light came on around 93K miles. Must mean somebody tripped the
> light at 30K miles. Short lived OXsensor????
> 
> 
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