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5 hours ago, CONROD said:

This might help you out mate, I was having similar noise in my little 2001 workmate, and what I did was unscrew the speedo cable as you already have done, then put my cordless drill on the end of the INNER cable.

Spinning the cable SLOWLY using the cordless, I then slowly drew the cable out, which came out very easy, once out I cleaned it, I then REINSERTED it using VASALINE smeared over the inner in a manner so it lubed it without clagging the sh+t out of it,

That was 12 mths ago and its been smooth and quiet ever since

You will know when the inner is fully home when the speedo starts to register ( if you have the drill turning the right direction ) and the gearbox end will sit where it did before you started.

Its dead set easy to do and if the cable only lacks lube, saves hours rooting around pulling dash apart to unclip it off the back of instrument cluster, if it comes out and its knackered you know for certain youre up for another speedo cable,

Hope I didn't bore you ranting on,

Cheers CONROD

bore me, thats like the ol joke about drillers always chucking the most boring christmas party yeah?.. 😁😜

man thats great info !! , you just saved me a day (been reading about puling the dash out- looks like a day to me) of complete and utter tedium.

very serious question , which way should I spin it out?

clockwise or anti?

yep, it was the speedo cable, took 30 seconds to unscrew from transfer case, drove around the block, silence!!

unreal how it can make such a squealing racket

many thanks for this thread being here and Cory inparticular.

the noise got me $500 dropped off a 2002 hilux btw, was a complete mystery, I figured $500 worth of mystery, now it's just a couple of hours to pull the dash off and unclip the speedo.

Hi new poster, new hilux, same problem

so, did anyone try the speedo cable solution yet?

it's been 4 years for some of you.  surely there's been someone has solved it, no?