C-2 Clock Movement

[Hector G.]

Is anyone familiar with the "factory NOS clock movement" advertised on e-bay? It comes up for sale from time to time. Is this a good product? Will it pass NCRS judging?

Hector

[John D.]

Re: C-2 Clock Movement

Hector, As long as it is not a quartz movement it should be OK although I would let one of the restoration shops restore your clock and let them supply the parts with OEM specs. Let me tell you how the ops process works. On my 63 the clock was first checked to insure that it was not quartz. Then we were asked to reset the time. Then we were asked to disconnect the battery to see if the clock still ran for a short time with no power. It passed all the above. John

[Joe C.]

Re: C-2 Clock Movement

Hector,

The original clock movement was conventional, mechanical with a mainspring reset periodically with an elerctromechanical mechanism (solenoid). I no longer see this item advertised in the LICS catalog. If you check with Doc Rebuild and do not find it there either, then e-bay might be your best bet. Price of a NOS movement was under 75 bucks, last time I looked.

Joe

[Alan Drake]

Re: C-2 Clock Movement

A number of people will rebuild your clock and even sell you the internal movement. I had my speedo recal and purchased the internal for the clock. They even instructed me as to how to remove the shaft, however I was unable to remove the stem. Sent back to them and they installed the movement, some good marks left on stem so it was very hard to remove. The reason I tell you the story, just send the entire clock out and have those with correct tools do the work. I always try to do these things because I enjoy it, however don't - just send it out.

If you do send out ask that they do not clean the case or re-do the face unless that is what you want. Check Driveline.
Good Luck

[Hector G.]

Re: C-2 Clock Movement

Thanks everyone. Good advise. I always like to do things myself, and on occasion, get myself in a real mess . I didn't think about the stem and the problems it might cause.

[Gerard F.]

Also the big thing is calibration of the clock.

And the restorers who specialize in clocks have the instruments to do it.
Try to do it yourself and you are shooting in the dark.

Incidentally,as I have found, the clock adjust for fast and slow per the Owners Manual really doesn't work. Then disconnect the battery and you start all over.

Jerry Fuccillo
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[William C.]

Re: Also the big thing is calibration of the clock

It's actually easier for judges to listen for the "thunk" of the rewind mechanism than to go thru all the steps they did with you John. But I'm just old fashoned so I like the easy way.

[John D.]

Re: Also the big thing is calibration of the clock

Bill, Ops at Marlborough on some of the 16 plus 63-64's was done by Bollard and associate. Need I say more. John does know his stuff though. Felt sorry for him and his helper (sorry I don't know his name) as they had a ton of cars to do ops on and it was raining Big time. My 63 had not been to a show in over 15 years and wouldn't you know fresh out of it's second resto it got drenched. So did a ton of others. Don't know how my white car didn't leak inside but it was dry. So with the pounding of the rain you couldn't hear a clock tick let alone a thud. But the boys did check to see if the clocks were quartz besides what I said before. John