'96 850 odometer stopped, advice welcome...

Fellow Volvo Enthusiasts:

My 1996 850 turbo automatic (138k miles) has suffered the dreaded
'odometer stopped working' malady. I might add the trip odometer stopped
as well. The rest of the instrument panel works perfect. Speed, boost,fuel
tach, etc.

The "dealer" says $350 US to $500.

I know about:

http://www.odometergears.com/

And that's great! But what if it isn't the gear!!! I AM NOT pulling that
panel myself despite the dummy proof example at:

http://www.volvospeed.com/Dashremove.htm

.... so, what's a boy to do?

I guess I will buy both the gear and the 'pod' for it and get my tech to
pull it, and pray he can fix it. I figure if everything else works it's
mechanical... and since they sell the part on the 'net it must be common
enough.

Thoughts appreciated.

FDD

 

http://webpages.charter.net/dwarner2/ODOgear.jpg
I did this myself. I don't recommend the "bend the left side of the
dash up" method though. It's an incredibly hard task to squeeze the
pod through that little gap while straining to hold the dash up.

To reinstall it, I finished removing the whole dash cover (more
screws, glovebox, airbag bolts, airbag cable) .
This made it possible to just drop the cluster in.

http://webpages.charter.net/dwarner2/gears3.jpg
The first gear was malformed (top), so I had to wait 2 weeks while
odogears got his molding machine fixed and delivered another one
(left)
I drove it for the week with with the dash cover off and a 2.5 ohm
resistor stuck in the airbag harness connector to prevent it from
generating an airbag fault. and then popped the cluster out again when
the new one arrived.
http://webpages.charter.net/dwarner2/Topless.jpg
http://webpages.charter.net/dwarner2/PanelSplit.jpg



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To reinstall it, I finished removing the whole dash cover (more screws,
glovebox, airbag bolts, airbag cable) . This made it possible to just drop
the cluster in.

Tell me, did you have it at the point where you could have put a new
evaporator core in it?? Sounds like you did A LOT of work!

 

This is a link to how to get the actual mileage from the CPU on the
93-95 850's. I don't know about the later models. You can run the
mileage forward with a small motor and a rubber wheel while you have the
odometer apart to reset the actual mliage.
http:/www.brickboardrd.com/AWD/index.htm?id=680941

 

If you want to reset the odometer to actual mileage, you may be able to
get the actual mileage from the CPU using A7 on 93-95 850's. Not sure
about 96. Use a small motor and a rubber model wheel to rotate the
odometer while you have it apart, before you put in the new gear.
http://www.brickboard.com/AWD/index.htm?id=680941