[IndyAnne]

Happy to report the trip odometer fix is a good one. The bond with the Threadlocker - Green seems to have done the trick. I put the trip odometer back in place and ran some errands the long way, put in about twice the miles and no failure of the gear.

Full disclosure: I messed up.

I was too concerned about the bond of the broken gear, and when I pressed the mileage wheels together for the last time before leaving everything to cure overnight, I pressed the wheels too close together. I should have shifted the brown gear just a tiny fraction to the right, maybe 1/32" which still would have well covered the groove that permitted a good bond of the gear and the Threadlocker - Green. Instead, all the wheels are binding together, not stuck together -- I can still turn each one independently, including the tenths wheel. Now they all turn together on the spindle rather than spinning freely with the spindle driving brown gear and the tenths wheel in tandem (see previous articles).

Still, I feel pretty good about it as a learning experience. I put in a lot of miles with the whole set of wheels clicking together, all in sequence. Even with all of that extra vibration and torque from the engagement of both spindles, and the drive gear, and the timing gears on the wheels doing what they should be doing, but for the wrong reasons: the broken brown gear and the Threadlocker did not fail. It was kind of noisy, every tenth of a mile clicking pretty loud, so we sang some songs very loud and gave the clicking some competition. I imagine that if I had left space between the wheels, it would work perfectly.

The trip odometer is useless -- again. Or, still. Rats. I took the little metal connector out from between the spindles of the odometer and the trip meter, set the trip meter to all 7s -- lucky for the rest of my projects, I hope.

So, as one of my mentors used to say, "It was a great idea, it just wasn't no count." That's my Alabama coming out sideways.

OK, so, the experiment succeeded and it failed all at the same time. Live and learn. Maybe I'll be calling on Trucks Plus on Monday about another trip meter.