Clock running and running and ????

[m5bb]

I drove my car last night to a local gathering. Mostly young kids. Trying to educate them about what a classy car looks like.:lol:

So back up a little and a few months back I removed all my gauges to fix the odometer and hopefully get the clock running as well as clean all the glass.
Did both but a couple months later the clock stopped. I didn't touch it but on the way home last night I thought I would at least put the hands at 6 o'clock.
This morning I entered garage and heard this tick,tick,tick at a pretty fast pace and went to the car to listen. It was up in the dash and in the clock area. I said I don't remember a relay in that area as it sounded like a relay that was opening and closing. I got my flashlight and looked up there and could not see anything because there was nothing to see. I put my hand up there and could feel something vibrating. You guessed it the clock was rewinding over and over. I was also running or at least the hands had moved. I was able to unplug the wire and it stopped.
Just a funny thing someone else may have happen so now it's here.

 

[adawil2002]

Did you take the clock apart to get it running?
If so did you notice a speed adjustment with a + & - ?
Could it be wired backwards?
I've never removed my gauges so I don't know, just speculating.

My clock ticks pretty fast and the hands moves in intervals, it's not a smooth movement, more like a quartz watch second hand movement except it in minutes. It keeps better time than Vern's Motometer dash clock.

My clock and speedo were sent to North Hollywood Speedometer by my car's PO. So everything works, thankfully.

 

[Arde]

The mechanism inside the original clock is kind of a relay if I recall. The clock works on the stored spring energy for about a minute and then a contact closes which energizes a coil which pushes the spring and opens the contact for another minute. One of the fault modes is for the contact to get tired, so maybe you woke that up. You can open the clock and clean that contact to have hopefully a working clock again, so can educate the young kids at the gathering on how a classic clock works.

 

[tomcolitt]

Sounds like the spring on the wide up arm inside the clock may have broken or the arm got jammed or tweaked to where the clock's contact is not going through it's complete travel lasting a few minutes before it closes again and winds up the clock. The only way to know and fix it is to open it up. If you don't want to to open it, I do these repairs too.

Tom
ClassicAutosLA

 

[m5bb]

The mechanism inside the original clock is kind of a relay if I recall. The clock works on the stored spring energy for about a minute and then a contact closes which energizes a coil which pushes the spring and opens the contact for another minute. One of the fault modes is for the contact to get tired, so maybe you woke that up. You can open the clock and clean that contact to have hopefully a working clock again, so can educate the young kids at the gathering on how a classic clock works.

There is a fuse type device that fails. I repaired that and it worked for a couple months. There is a write up about clock repairs.
Not worried about fixing it just thought it was funny what quirky things can happen. It didn't drain my battery because it may have done it all night. There is only one 12v wire plus ground to make it run.

 

[m5bb]

Sounds like the spring on the wide up arm inside the clock may have broken or the arm got jammed or tweaked to where the clock's contact is not going through it's complete travel lasting a few minutes before it closes again and winds up the clock. The only way to know and fix it is to open it up. If you don't want to to open it, I do these repairs too.

Tom
ClassicAutosLA

Thanks for the offer Tom. I will keep that in mind if I can't fix it.