New gears AND new motor and still no odo. What gives?

[Balleristic31]

Ok so my odo in my 318is was broken like usual so purchased and installed the new gears from garagistic. Motometer cluster.
After making 100% sure I had the gears installed correctly the odo still didn't work. So I figured hey it must be a bad odo motor.
Fast forward to today I install the new gears into another odo with similar miles and once again, nothing.

What are the chances that I got two bunk motors? Is there anything else it could possibly be?? I'm totally stumped and bummed I can't get it to work. Everything else on the cluster functions 100% and I don't know why this won't.

Any help is appreciated

[willworkfore30s]

I thought all 318is' had VDO clusters? I have same prob in my 318is btw. Did gears but not motor

[Balleristic31]

Both my cluster and my new speedos cluster were motometers, and both were in 318iss. But either way it doesn't really matter

[jeffnhiscars]

I swapped gears for a friend of mine on 2 odos and went back after he said one wasnt working. Turns out he didnt reconnect all the cluster plugs. Works fine now and he's lucky I didnt hit him for a service call lol

[Balleristic31]

Ill recheck connections but like I said everything else on the cluster is 100% working. Thanks for the suggestion

[Gregs///M]

The plate that secures the odometer gears in place, with the two screws. Loosen those up a bit. Tighten too much and they wont spin.

[ButtJuice]

^ that

I had the same problem, Greg suggested that and it worked! Thanks Greg! Also I took off the 2 little yellow place holder things that garagistic includes with the gears.

[reelizmpro]

^ that

I had the same problem, Greg suggested that and it worked! Thanks Greg! Also I took off the 2 little yellow place holder things that garagistic includes with the gears.

I once forgot to install those yellow o rings and it allowed the gear to move up the shaft and not mesh. You need those o rings with the garagistic gears.

[Balleristic31]

The cover being too tight seems plausible! I did tighten it pretty hard. Will try and report back!

[Balleristic31]

I love you guys! I loosened up the cover and the miles started rolling. Thanks guys

[Gregs///M]

I love you guys! I loosened up the cover and the miles started rolling. Thanks guys

I believe this to be the biggest mistake people make when changing their gears. Garagistic should include this note in their instructions.

I always use Garagistic gears btw.

[ButtJuice]

I once forgot to install those yellow o rings and it allowed the gear to move up the shaft and not mesh. You need those o rings with the garagistic gears.

Thanks for the advice, I'll reinstall them.

[willworkfore30s]

I'm getting ready to take a decent trip in my e30. I'm gonna see if this is my issue aswell. It would be nice to get a real gauge of what kinda mpgs i'm getting