hi just bought a 90 and the speedo cable make a noise in the morning

[bradleyjon59]

hi ,new here. just bought a really clean 90 forerunner and when I first drive her in the morning the speedo cable make a awful racket when I first get going . I took the cable off at both ends and nothing looks wrong . I put a little light grease on both ends and it was quiet for 2 days and now the noise is back .what might be wrong . thanx for any quidence you can give

 

[fourwd1]

You probably just need to get more lubrication through the entire length of the cable.
The metal on metal contact could be anywhere along it.
Don't use WD-40, it dissipates too quickly.

 

[77'911]

Don't waste your time with "lubricating" the cable, it does not work. I went through this whole situation about a year back with our 1990 4runner(V6, auto, 4wd). It's heavily documented on this site with DIY pics.
Toyota in their grand wisdom, decided to not produce the speedo cables for the older models anymore. After the Toyota engineers at North America researched a fix for me, they came up with updating the speedo head in the cluster to the MY92- and later style (takes 19mm end instead of old style 16mm end).
Here is the part#'s for the old and new style cable. They are both the same part. Toyota just puts the new style cable in a bag with the old, or orginal part#:
New- 83710-35490
Old - 83710-89910
You might consider finding a used speedo head. I got a break on the new speedo head since Toyota is essentially breaking Federal law by not providing the parts that would allow it's owners to obey, or keep within Federal and State laws.
The job is not too bad. Hope this helps, and saves you some of the aggravation I had to go through. Here is a pic of the parts I installed to fix the failing cable on our truck. The speedo head was one of the last in the North American warehouse.

regards

 

[zeak]

I had a similar problem with my cable, but it had slid out of the coupler on the transfer case too.

I hooked one end to my drill press and ran it on low speed.
On the other end, I zip tied some black rubber hose over the
cable cover and zip tied the other end of the hose to a bottle of gear oil with a hand pump on it.
(the kind for filling the diff quickly.)

I slowly pumped the oil into it until it oozed out the other end of the cable.

I've not had any trouble with it since then. Hope this helps

 

[fourwd1]

I had a similar problem with my cable, but it had slid out of the coupler on the transfer case too.

I hooked one end to my drill press and ran it on low speed.
On the other end, I zip tied some black rubber hose over the
cable cover and zip tied the other end of the hose to a bottle of gear oil with a hand pump on it.
(the kind for filling the diff quickly.)

I slowly pumped the oil into it until it oozed out the other end of the cable.

I've not had any trouble with it since then. Hope this helps

Yes, lubricating the cable does help most of the time.