I purchased both gears for sale at odometergears.com to fix my frozen odomteter/tripometer. I installed them last night and everything seemed to be working, but then the tripometer froze at 14.5 miles (and the odometer quit working as well.)

I just went for a drive on my break at work, and poked the button to rezero them and the tripometer started rolling again. It makes a ticking noise and kind of clicks along, instead of rolling smoothly as I was hoping...

Is there anything special I should do to the odometer to lubricate it or keep it moving?

With the whole assembly taken apart, I could EASILY turn the clear gears that control trip and odometer. I don't understand why things would bind up in there, as it seemed like everything fit together well.

The 12 gear piece, I did notice the motor armature fit tightly in that hole, whereas I think it is supposed to be able to spin easily... It wasn't so tight that I thought the motor would bind up, but maybe I'm wrong here.

Have any of you encountered this? Any tips or advice on getting it working perfectly?

You may very well have some debris from the old gears still in there.

Mark

There was a tooth stuck in there, but I made sure to remove it before reassembling. I spun the gears around several times to make sure there as no play. It's been working since, but we shall see.

As far as clicking along, I noticed mine "steps" after I fixed it (it does not increment smoothly). Others here said their odometer does the same. As far as why it didn't work for a bit, I would vote for Mark's idea. I suppose it's possible you didn't have something seated properly, but to stop and start again, that sounds funny. In any event, it sounds like something you would have to disassemble to debug.

Did it step like that before you fixed it?

My 1991 Volvo 244's odometer (electronic) did this, so I was just curious if it was a Volvo thing... (Since I'd never seen my 850's odometer when it was working.)