Rallye clock restoration/repair?

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Offline miketyler

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Rallye clock restoration/repair?
« on: July 28, 2005 - 06:19:18 AM »
Whats the best repair scenario for these? The quartz kits? There is a guy that does repairs on all auto clocks. I emailed him and he claims to repair the orginal movements. Anyone found good deals on the DIY quartz kits or had good luck with similar service providers? Please post up your experiences
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Re: Rallye clock restoration/repair?
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2005 - 06:38:43 AM »
I don't know of any deals on the kits but I put one of those kits in my car it was easy to do the kit came with everything you nee and it works great the only thing is the second hand does not have a real sweeping motion but if that doesn't bother you I would just go with the kit :beer:
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Re: Rallye clock restoration/repair?
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2005 - 07:36:15 AM »
assume you mean the quartz kit? What was the best deal you found out there?
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Re: Rallye clock restoration/repair?
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2005 - 03:49:57 PM »
I sent mine out to a place to have the quartz conversion since I was having my tach fixed at the same time.  I think the name of the place was Auto Instruments in Virginia (I believe). I thik the charge for the clock was 80 or 85 bucks.  They had great customer service and were pretty fast.

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Re: Rallye clock restoration/repair?
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2005 - 11:36:47 AM »
I sell a clock kit with a really nice picture manual showing exactly how to install the clock into the Ebody Rallye dash for $75 plus $10 shipping. The kit also
works in the standard Ebody clock.

See the installl manual at my website:

http://www.rt-eng.com/mopar/tachboard/Ebody_REV1.pdf

Here is a link to the main page where you can buy the clock kit.

www.rt-eng.com

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Re: Rallye clock restoration/repair?
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2005 - 08:44:29 PM »
Hey Greg!  Glad to see you here!

I'll vouch for Greg and his products.  I was just up at his place last week where he helped me out with a donor R/T hood for my Challenger and we had a nice visit.  In December, I'm planning on shooting video of Greg demonstrating his tach boards and clock replacements for Ebodies.  Both products look really, really nice and should help quite a few folks out.  He also has some new products in the design phase that folks here will definately want.

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Re: Rallye clock restoration/repair?
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2005 - 08:48:21 PM »
I'll have to ck it out - I found a place that has the replaement quartz movements for $50 and includes an instructional video. It doesnt look too bad but from the video I watched, I wouldnt recommend it for just anyone!

BTW - is there a way to adjust the factory tach on the car? Its off by around 200-300RPM?   
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Re: Rallye clock restoration/repair?
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2005 - 08:58:43 PM »
You can try adjusting the potentiometer on the original tach board. Sometimes this will make the tach read correctly, sometimes it won't. It depends on the condition
of the original 30 year old pot and the electronic components on the board.  One problem with the original tach electronics is that the pot is not sealed, so they end up getting a lot
of gunk in them. You have heard the results of this if you ever tried to use an old radio and when you adjusted the volume control you would hear a lot of static. Same deal here.

If you can't get the old tach board to read correctly, then I sell a new one with modern semiconductors that will fix your problem. It uses a sealed pot that won't get corrosion. In addition
my board will work with MSD ignition. Also I have a regulator on my board so that the tach reading won't fluctuate as the voltage on the battery goes up and down.

Good luck!

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