Center console clock

Where did you get the info providing the issue and exact page for that article? Seems to me, I'd start looking there..

It was a web site about magazines after a long goggle search. No magazines, just a reference.

Sacramento Mustang (as well as others, I'm sure) have a quartz replacement for about $70. I'm sure instructions are with it. If you really want to keep your Mustang stock, some similar companies have a program where you send in your old clock and have it rebuilt. Or, you might just get lucky by putting some light oil on it to dissolve the 35 year old grease and dirt allowing it to work.

Will take to Palo Alto Speedometer (paspeedo.com) as they are just up the street. Does not appear to be a mechanical problem, rather an electrical one. The hands, including second hand, move fine. When you apply power nothing happens. Must be a fairly robust clock considering it is strapped to a toploader!

I stand corrected on previous post. A few drops of penetrating oil is beginning to work. Still don't understand the use of electricity except maybe to wind the clock.

Exactly. The motor winds the spring and then stops. That's why on a properly working clock you will hear a "ting" or a "click" every few minutes. The motor does not run continuously.

It runs longer now, but still not in "running" condition. Probably need to take it to a pro, $$ Ouch. Last week it was the carb, this week the clock. Had better luck with the carb.

I remember an article from the 80s about using the quartz movement from various other cars that would work properly and could be wired such that it would keep time with the car off. Of course practically everything in junkyards now will have a digital clock.

Got it working with a few precise drops of 3 in 1 oil as suggested by another reader. Been running for

14 hours now and is dead on. Now just need to find where under the dash to plug in the harness.