tidewatcher
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I have a 1.9TD Ducato Bessacar camper van (1999). It recently had the compulsory gearbox rebuild following water ingress to the gearbox. After about 1000 miles I noticed an oil leak from th gearbox so returned to the rebuilder. They said the leak was from the speedo drive and the drive gear had worn on its top face and lifted allowing oil to escape. They replaced this foc but said the speedo needle was kicking and thus loading the speedo drive gear. They also said that the fault may be in the speedo head which seems slightly tenuous. Could anyone tell me of likely causes for the needle kicking and if so does it lead to the drive gear wear and oil leakage?