Escort Speed Sensor

Gary Compton opined in news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

If that's a standard speedo cable to the inst. cluster that you replaced, then the problem is either in your speedometer itself or the gear in the trans.. do you have cruise?

See if it works and holds steady speed, while the needle fluctuates.. if so, it's not the gear.

Okay... when it fluctuates, is it jumping up or dropping down? And how much?

up=likely the speedo, down=likely the gear

Stiff cable from firewall to tranny, probably a plastic pickup at end of cable.. and two wires from it, unbolt that.. it's a nylon or composite slanted tooth gear.

Also... drive it on freeway, and check odometer against mile markers while it fluctuates... if odo is right (+/- 5 %) then problem is in the meter.

Say when you are doing about 50 mph, it swings back and forth between 40 and