the rightmost wheel is a press fit on the shaft. Through a set of secondary gears it turns the one to its left and so on. Mine has come loose several times. Fingernail polish, superglue (not recommended), epoxy, etc. Taking it apart is a fun exercise for guys like me. YMMV. Once the shaft is off, you can score it or deform it slightly or perhaps make it a little thicker at the right place by depositing a layer of solder on it. Of course, once it's off you can reset the mileage to anything you want. Just some ideas. This is what I like about these cars - they are so repairable.
Bogy.
--- On Tue, 4/16/13, c24052000 <jcrcpa@tx.rr.com> wrote:
> From: c24052000 <jcrcpa@tx.rr.com>
> Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Odometer problems
> To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 9:38 PM
> if you press the trip reset button
> while the car is moving, it may/will break something in the
> odometer. don't ask me how i know. I would assume that
> maybe the same function broke part of the spokes on the
> wheel and did not fully disable them.
> just my humble opinion.
>
> chuck
>
>
> --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com,
> "tsgbike" <tsgbike@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I purchased a 1983 MB 300 turbo diesel about a week
> ago. The car had 194,900 miles on it when I bought
> it. As I was driving the car the odometer stopped
> working when it hit 195,000 miles (precisely). Both
> the odometer and the trip odometer. I can push the
> reset button on the trip odometer and it will work for about
> a mile or so, as does the odometer. In a 42 mile
> commute I racked up about 10 miles by doing this.
> >
> > One thing that I did that may have an impact was I was
> trying to adjust the dash lights (same knob) and may have
> turned it too far. The knob did pop off in my hand as
> well as the spring, but I just had to press it back
> on. May be unrelated since it went 50 miles after that
> before stopping to work.
> >
> > Any ideas of what is happening and if I can fix it?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
>
>
>
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