My speedometer on my LX150 has been making squeaky noises for the past few weeks, and the needle started bouncing up and down. It finally stopped working alltogether last week, so this weekend I opened up the headset to take a look at it. The cable was totally disconnected, so I reconnected it, but it still doesn't work. I did a search on MV and found a post where someone put a brass shim on the cable end (around the little square piece), and that solved their problem. So I tried that, and it worked for about 2 minutes and then stopped working again.

Any suggestions? It almost seems like it's the speedometer unit itself, and not the cable. Although I put a rod in the end of my drill, stuck it into the speedometer connection, and I can make the needle go up to 20MPH (it's a battery-operated drill so I'm thinking it's just slow). I can put in a bigger shim on the cable end, I guess. I can also replace the cable, but it seems to be working okay -- if I raise up the front wheel and spin it by hand, I can see the speedometer cable turning at the end in the headset, so the cable isn't broken or binding. Do the Speedometers themselves go out? I'm pretty frustrated, because I'm at 9899.9 miles right now, and I was hoping to see it hit 10000 this week...

Thanks for any hints or advice!

-Dan