Odometer and trip meter repair 1989 Chevrolet C2500 Truck

I was driving my 89 Chevy C2500 truck and noticed it was about to hit 80,000 miles. Sometime after that I heard a loud crack sound, but did not know what it was. It happened when we were either going to or leaving a store.

Later on the way home I noticed that the odometer was stuck half way between 79,999.9 and 80,000.0 it did not move the rest of the drive home. After doing some research I determined that the odometer gear may have cracked.

The plastic in an 88 to 91 chevy truck is old and brittle, do not over tighten any of the screws when putting them back in. You will almost certainly find broken plastic on the gauge cluster bezel, and the screws that hold the headlight controls in place. A new bezel can be ordered from LMCTRUCK.COM

I took the dash panel apart. There are youtube videos on how to do this, it is very easy. I found that this gear (seen below with the red arrow) had a crack in it.

There are youtube videos to explain how to remove the gear, and replace it. Though I do not recommend heating the gear up. I ordered a 924-396 Odometer Drive Gear from amazon for a ridiculous $30.

However the gear has 2 extension from the hub, a large one and a small one. My original gear did not have the small one.

The small one indicated above with the red arrow had to be removed because I could not get the odometer back together with it there. I installed my gear by placing the gear over a vice spread just enough to allow the hub to go through. I placed the odometer in the hole, and carefully tapped it in place with a small brass hammer. Do not use a steel hammer. Be careful of how far you put the gear on, too far and you cannot join it back in place with the trip meter. Not far enough and you can't get the odometer back in place. Once the gear was on I estimated how far I had traveled (about 49 miles) after the gear broke, and advanced the odometer that much. The odometer cannot be moved backwards without taking it apart which would probably be a nightmare to put back together.

Once I had the odometer fixed I worked on my trip meter which had been broken at some point when my dad had the truck. 

The above is a picture from an old ebay listing, and shows the back of the trip meter. The red arrow points at the piece of plastic that was broken. the trip meter cannot be reset if the shaft with the green gears is not in the correct place.

The above picture shows the 2 shafts from the side, the left one has a twisted wire on the top side of the shaft. I did the repair with the gauge panel still assembled as I did not want to take a chance of breaking it further by taking it apart to work on it. I wrapped a small piece of thin steel wire around the 2 shafts twice. The wires must go around the shafts as shown on the L side. with the 2 ends of the wire coming out of the top. I then carefully cinched the shafts tight enough so the trip meter reset would work. I twisted the wires together carefully, and snipped off all but about 3/16 of an inch of the twist. When completed the shafts were now correctly aligned, and the reset works. You must run the wire around twice, as you cannot cinch them together with only one loop of wire.

while setting the correct mileage I noticed that the odometer had a tendency to get stuck, and this might explain why it had broken when it had to move 6 disks. The odometer is driven by a motor, not a cable.

Because you have to turn the truck on and move the shifter all the way over to remove the control gauge cluster, when you disconnect the cluster that may cause a fault. This fault will show up when you get everything back together as the brake light will blink 8 times short and 1 time long then repeat. The error is an open circuit error in the brake controller. The error is false. I fixed mine by disconnecting the battery for 30 seconds.

some of the pictures in this post came from other sources as I was in too much of a hurry to take my own pictures.

google maps see my real time location using excessive memory and tracking stops

on rare occasions someone I know shares their real time location, and when they do their location is updated non-stop instead of like once every 30 seconds or however it works.

since then it has not done it, now this morning he shared his location and it's doing it again. using up all my memory in a very short amount of time. going from 12.7 gigs till either the browser crashes or it just stops tracking until I close and reopen the browser. happens in firefox and in chrome.

here is a no sound video of what is happening. nothing is artificially sped up. it doesn't matter what version of firefox or chrome, when it happens it, this is what happens. I upgraded my memory since the last post and went from 16 to 48 gigs. so now my computer doesn't freeze.

 

yesterday my wife shared her location, and it did not do this. on other occasions the other person shares their location and it does not do this.

HP Touchsmart PC CMOS batteries

The HP Touchsmart 320 PC CMOS battery is located next to the memory inside the case. Remove 2 screws on the back bottom left and right corners. carefully pry up the left and right sides of the case. open the silver cover for the battery, and the CR2032 battery is to the left of the memory. make sure you put the new one in the same way as the old one. replace the back the same way you took it off. line everything up and use considerable force to push the back, back on. replace the screws. reboot, hit esc and go in to setup to reset the time and other settings. I cannot help with what those settings will be.

The Touchsmart 310 is a bit more difficult.

remove these 5 screws from back.

remove black shiny plate, and 4 screws from stand, then remove stand.

remove the dvd drive, power the machine up briefly and press eject, then power it off. loosen the screws and pull the drive out. carefully pry the plastic apart all the way around the back cover.

The battery is located under the metal shield where the arrow points. 

remove as many screws from the shield as you need to carefully pry up the shield. some wires need to be briefly relocated. replace the CR2032 by pushing against the side nearest the memory and it should pop out. take note of which side is down, and put the new battery in the same way.

carefully replace the shield, and all screws in their same location. there is a black screw that is in a specific place. make sure to reattach the black ground wires removed and any wires displaced.

re-assemble in reverse order. make sure to get the case snapped back in place properly. reboot, hit esc and go in to setup to reset the time and other settings. I cannot help with what those settings will be.

I can offer no other help.

problems installing any MAGIX software

ran into problems trying to install magix vegas pro suite 22. the installs would fail, or never download with the download manager just sitting at 0% paused.

I checked in Settings/widows security/virus & threat protection/ransomware protection and sure enough the download manager/installer was trying to do something in my profile folders and windows was blocking it. attempts to unblock the folders failed nor was allowing programs through working either.

I had to disable controlled folder access for the install to work. then cancel the install and start it over again, it should install. remember to re-enable the controlled folder access so you will get pissed off the next time you try to install.

 

Error 0x80070091- The Directory Is Not Empty Fix

This one drove me crazy. chkdsk did not work, etc. 

This was in a windows xp virtual machine but should work on other versions of windows.

Boot to hirens boot dvd cd_PE_x64 I don't know what version but it has windows 10 on it.

go to the folder that cannot be deleted.

create an empty text document in it. go up one level and try to delete the folder. empty trash.

you must do this one at a time for each folder by itself.

I had 3 folders that would not delete. this worked.

KB890830 windows malicious software removal tool

KB890830 windows software malicious removal tool appears to hang or freeze at 0% for a very long time, or seems to take a long time to install.

Relax do something else. it is scanning the system and windows can't be arsed to tell you this.

How to disable seatbelt chime in subaru cars

First why am I doing this. simple I can and I will. Also I am not responsible for you or someone you know doing this and then getting injured because you/they drove with no seat belt. driving without a seat belt is retarded. This method only works for some Subaru cars.

Second I always wear my seat belt but hate the chime. I am not a child that needs to be scolded in to doing something.

Third do not worry your silly little head about if I sell it, it can be re-enabled easily. just repeat the sequence or disconnect the battery for 1 minute. Reconnect the sensor.

OK how to do it:

1. Buy a seat belt extender. good luck with that. I have not been able to find one that works for my 2015 Subaru Forester. you will want the shortest one you can get. If the extender male tab does not look like the pic below it probably won't work. the measurements of the tab are 1 inch wide by about 1.25 inches long. plugging in an extender satisfies the sensor but allows you to unplug the seat at your whim without being scolded.

 

2. The 20 clicks method. 

Get in your car.
Close the door.
turn off your AC (it doesn't matter if you do this).
hold the tab in your left hand.
insert the key in the ignition, turn it 2 clicks to ON, but do not start the car.
within 30 seconds insert the tab in the buckle and remove it 20 times.
each insert, remove = 1 click.
do this with the cadence of:
click mississippi
click mississippi
when you remove the tab the last time turn the car back to ACC then start the car.
The seat belt light should come on and the chime will activate once (each time the car is started with seat belt off).
Now with the seat belt off drive the car up to 20 mph. the seat belt light should come on once but no chime.
If the chime comes on you did something wrong or your car requires a slightly different method.

3. Go to a dealer and have them disable it.

4. Unplug the sensor connection under the seat. I will not explain how to do this, as this is the most difficult method.

 If your car has push button start read the manual on how to put the car on without starting it. I cannot help with push button start cars. actually I won't help do this at all.