Speedometer suddenly quit

[Fred K-OR]

Originally Posted by 160B

The cause of the failure of the cable is the speedometer is becoming harder to turn internally. Until you service the speedometer head you will continue to have cable failures due to the problem in the speedometer head.

This is good advise. Make sure the speedo is turning easy. And the only way to do that is to take it loose from the top at the speedo. I had same problem because my speedo was not moving easy and it broke the cable.