Speedometer (I broke it)

[neverfinished]

Last night I pulled my dash apart to grease a squeaky speedo and fix some malfunctioning gauges. Everything is back in but now my speedo doesn't work. I can reach in behind the dash and spin the cable which makes the needle move so I think it's cable related or transmission related. Should I be able to spin the cable like that or did I manage to break the cable or maybe pulled it loose from the transmission? I wouldn't think that the cable would break or disengage from the transmission with the little bit of tugging I did to get the cable off of the gauge cluster so I'm wonder what else I should be looking for.