ECJ5 Time: Speedo Clock Directions!!

Here's some guidelines if anyone wants to make one of these clocks:

What you need:

CJ speedometer
Sawsall or good hacksaw
Files or dremmel with grinding stones
Tin snips
Hot glue gun
Clockworks. Get at Michaels/Ben Franklin/AC Moore/any craft store. Get one for ¼” thick dial
Flourescent orange spray paint
Drill, 5/16 drill bit, 1/8” drill bit
Screwdriver
Red construction paper
¼” thick piece of rubber, (or wood, etc) about 1x1” or so
5 or 6 flat toothpics

How to do:

Pry up edges of bezel, lift bezel/glass retainer off of unit. Clean glass, sand and paint bezel and retainer desired color (assuming chrome is shot)
From the back, unscrew the nuts that hold the guts in place (odometer and gauges). Remove guts.
Pry off needle, careful to not scratch the face.
From the back, carefully drill the two rivets that hold the odometer in place with the 1/8 bit, do not drill through the face. Save the fronts of the rivets.
Remove the entire odometer assembly, cardboard tubes, etc
Note that all of this has to be removed so that the hands can clear the glass when all is assembled. Essentially the face will be moved well back into the case from the original location.

Take off the frame and device that prevents you from moving the numbers. Once it’s free, take the odometer wheels to a copy machine, set them to whatever combination you want, and make a copy of the numbers.

Drill out the center hole of the face to 5/16”
Clean the face carefully.
Put the odometer rivet front pieces back on the face, hot glue them in place from the back.

Glue the odometer numbers copy to a piece of card stock. Cut it out, hold it behind the face until lined up, hot glue it in place. Remove the old cellophane from the idiot lights, glue in some small pieces of red construction paper.

Remove the faces from the temp and fuel gage canisters, carefully clean them. If they are too bad, you can copy them on a copier, touch up the copies, then glue the copies over the original.

Paint the toothpicks and the clock hands with fluorescent orange paint. 2 coats, both sides.

Drill a ¼” hole in the center of the 1x1"x ¼” rubber, so it fits tightly over the clock stem. Hot glue it in place as a spacer between the works and the stem. Should be just enough stem to stick through the face and put the nut on to tighten.

Using a sawsall or hacksaw, cut the hump off of the back of the speedometer case.

Put the clock works behind the face and push stem through the center hole in the face. Tighten with nut provided in clockworks. Slip face into the case. Push it back until it bottoms on the two metal brackets that are inside the case. Note where the clockworks is too big to fit through the hole. Cut with tinsnips to allow the clock body to fully extend beyond the case. File or dremmel all rough edges, then paint entire case inside and out.

Take the temp gage face, align it behind the appropriate hole. Hot glue the back of the gage face to the back of the clock face in one spot. Cut a painted toothpick. From the front, slip it inbetween the gage face and the clock face, pointing at normal operating temp. Carefully turn unit over, hot glue the other side of the gage face back into place. Put extra glue into the triangle holes on the gage face, that will hold the toothpick in place.
Repeat for fuel gage.
(Note I suggested painting 5 or 6 toothpicks because the ends are often different shape, and not obvious until after painting. Select two that match the best after painting)

Holding the case in hand, slip the face/clockworks into the case, allowing it to rest on the two brackets, and making sure to have the extended portion of the gage faces aligned with the indentations in the case. Take one of the cardboard tubes, cut it about in half, so that it supports the bottom when placed between the clock face and the back of the case. Once it is cut to the required thickness, hot glue it inside the case, putting glue inside and out of the tube. This should be about bottom center inside the case, and essentially supporting behind the two gage faces. The two metal brackets support the rest of the unit. Be sure all is centered and level, then carefully turn the unit over, keeping it centered, and apply hot glue through the holes where you can access the metal brackets. The hot glue should make good contact with the back of the face and surround/encompass the brackets. When this cools, do the same for the cardboard tube support. Finally, apply hot glue around the clock body where it sticks out of the back of the case. The works and face should now be firm in the case.
After this, apply the painted clock hands to the clock stem per the package directions.

Install painted retainer/glass/bezel, crimp edges. Put some painted screws in the corners.

I think that about covers it....

What time is it??
Early CJ5 Time!!!

 

One project at a time... R)
These were on my plate before the LJ...

 

Lynn, what the reason for the 91101?? On both speedo's.

 

We should grab this and put it in the tech section so it doesn't get pruned. I have a spare speedo that I'd like to do this to but it's gonna be a while...

 

Indeed it is just a daily reminder to me of 9/11.

Another ECJ5er had one made with his wife's birthday so he doesn't forget...

Larry, good guess or good memory ... Here's a cold one for you!!

I now have both of these clocks on my wall at work, one above the other

 

Of course... for all the disasters and all of the heroes that terrible day, I choose this method to remind myself.

 

Hmmm, I have a flatty speedo around here somewhere...

 

I used battery operated, cheapie clockworks... got them at a craft-supply store (Michaels) for ~$7. They fit in the gaping hole you cut in the back. Easy to access the battery and hand-adjustment wheel.

Here's the back of a '55 speedo clock I made for Duke... this one turned out nice (better than some of the earler ones I made)

 

Here's a link to my album of the various Jeep-related clocks I've made, including one I did not make, another forum member here made it (the one in the wooden frame)

http://lynn225.multiply.com/photos/album/57/lynn225_Speedometer_

I have a few more in a box on the workbench to do, including a bogus '55 I'll make (later housing and glass with a '55 face)
Too many projects