Anyone rebuild speedo gears?

imho: Replace the whole cluster! The non-tach ones are easy to find. The "SR5" (tach) versions are little more coveted.

Are you sure it's not the cable, instead of the cluster?

Mine is the SR5 with tach. Where would you suggest I get one? I don't wanna get one from a junkyard and have the same problem. I don't imagine you can get a new one anymore... does someone sell reconditioned clusters? I checked e-Bay and didn't find a single one for the Sr5... only 4runners and Tacomas.

Yep. I replaced the cable 2 yrs ago and within 6 months I started getting the same whinning off and on, then eventually became near-constant, (when it occurs the speedo needle rides up to about

80mph and "shudders" there). So I thought maybe I got a bad cable/whatever.. and finally got around to getting it replaced again a month ago. Had a different shop do it and they said they could not guarantee it was the cable, and might be the speedo gears. I said just replace the cable and lets see how it goes. The noise was gone and I thought it was fixed, but then the other day I heard the vibration building but then it went away... then a day or so later it made the same old sound for a few seconds. Hasn't happened again yet, but I know where this is headed.

Wonder why a new cable temporarily made it better, if it was the gears? I did ask them to lube the gears, but that seems unlikely to have been the reason it was good for a month.

had that problem with my supra. cables are hard to find and expensive. so hard that i went to a pick and pay. there i found there are 2 cables and the short, easy and cheap one was to blame. this was after paying a shop over $100 to fix the long, hard expensive one. just in case, i bought both at the pick and pay fo $25. both got the soak, clean and new lube. and now i have a spare expensive on. so just in case, make sure you aren't half way fixed.

So, you're saying it wasn't the gears in your case, but that you had gotten a short cable when the long one works better?

Thanks!

it was the shorter of the 2 cables a supra uses. lunkhead mech didn't know.