Crap. Not fixed.

[JohnW63]

I lubed up the upper Speed-O cable and the back of the speedometer too. I thought I had my noisy, at speed, problem resolved. I found quite early, in my 6 hour drive to Laguna Seca that I had not. SO, about 12 hours later, I'm back, with a question.

if the speed-o is noisy and the range of vibration and noise worked it's way down from starting at the 70mph speed to the 40 mph speed, what do I really need to consider greasing the heck out of ? The back end of the gauge ? The lower cable section ? It just vibrated back and forth at about a 10 mph sweep.

That was an annoying drive.

 

[jelloslug]

You need to replace the cable. The inside of the cable has a molded in plastic sleeve and is worn away. The cable is binding on the metal jacket now and no amount of grease is going to fit is.

 

[NEp8ntballer]

check the condition of the lower cable. My upper cable went out because the lower cable was starting to bind and had no retainer clip.

if you spin the upper or lower cable by hand there should be little to no resistance. if there is you need to replace it.