Re: [Chrysler300] 300L clock

[Ray Jones <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan, Rich and all;
There's little draw as the clock is mechanical, and is wound 
electrically. You can't "wind"it up. It runs 2 minutes and then takes a 
little 12 volt jolt to rewind as in my original email. This, also, is 
from memories from the 70's when I bought my "L"(34-5 years ago). I 
sent mine to something Hill Clock in New England as I recall. It came 
back and ran for many years after that. I've fixed several others since 
then, as I described.

To regulate it, you have to determine how much it gains or loses and 
then adjust it. If it loses you turn the hands ahead 24 hours (I think) 
for each minute it loses per day. If it gains, you turn it back 24 
hours. My shop manual has no info on how to regulate it, other than to  
pull out on the knob and adjust one way or the other, and that seemed 
to be how to set it.

As to making it digital, if you're gonna have the radio changed to 
hi-tech, see if they do clocks also and send it along.

Ray


On Jan 31, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:

  It's been a few years since I aquainted myself with the inner workings 
of the clocks in my '65 300's so my memmories are foggy......even for a 
37 year old. I remember concluding after inspection that both clocks 
had shorted out basically from day one. It appeared to me (with limited 
knowledge) that a power wire which I remember being bare copper had 
touched the body of the clock and shorted out. I have yet to see one of 
these clocks actually working and figured it was a design flaw. I 
recall being able to wind it myself and it ran nicely until requiring a 
rewind.
   
  What could I have been looking at? Now I want to pull mine out and 
have a look to see if I can easily fix it? How do you calibrate them?

Ryan Hill
  '65 300 2dr/ht

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