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Wed, 16 July 2014 15:49  |
mickey szilagyi
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Hello all,
While on a trip about 250 miles from home this weekend, we ran in to the transmission issue where our speedometer completely quit on us, and the transmission will refuse to shift past 1st gear. As we've read here before, it could be that the governor gear is worn out. However, another thing (that may be related?) is that the speedo jumps most around most of the time and has been that way ever since we bought the coach 2 years ago; once in a while it will smooth out but 80% of the time it jumps around. We checked the speedo cables last fall and gave them all a little bit of all purpose grease but took care not to put very much in them just enough to lightly lube them. At the time they appeared fine and turned easily and looked like the previous owner had oiled them also. Around the same time we had the coach at a local shop and asked them to check the governor gear, and they swore that the governor gear was fine so we let things go assuming that it was OK.
First question for you guys: How quickly should the governor gear wear out (assuming it is in "good shape", or new)?
Second question: What is the proper way to access it and replace the governor gear? We attempted to find it as we had a spare on board, however ended up having to drive the coach to a shop at our destination and leave it there for them to look at. I believe we had the governor partially lifted out of the transmission housing, however the clip that normally holds it in place would not move aside enough and we had some hangup where we could not remove the governor assembly entirely to try and locate the governor gear itself. Eventually we put it back and clipped it back in so as not to do further damage or get any dirt in to that area of the transmission, etc.
Just waiting for the shop to let us know what they find, but trying to learn more about this problem in case it happens to us again in the future.
Thank you very much as always!
Mickey
Mickey
1977 Kingsley, 403, Lansing, MI
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