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'word-wrap:break-word'><div class=3DWordSection1><p class=3DMsoNormal>Simon=
,</p><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>I have =
a fiberglass trans cover that is yet to be installed that came from another=
LHD Healey. The hole that is open on yours has a rubber plug on mine and y=
our pluged hole is open. It would make sense the speedo cable routing for R=
HD drive cars uses the hole normally pluged for LHD cars.</p><p class=3DMso=
Normal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Harold<o:p></o:p></p><p cl=
ass=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style=3D'mso-element:para-border-=
div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><=
p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href=
=3D"mailto:healeys@autox.team.net";>Bob Spidell via Healeys</a><br><b>Sent: =
</b>Friday, November 5, 2021 9:57 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href=3D"mailto:healey=
s@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healey=
s] Speedo cable routing.</p></div><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p=
><p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-bottom:12.0pt'>re: "I wonder if =
the speedo cable=E2=80=99s routing was so far out of line that it needed a =
slight short cut to achieve its destination. My cable goes through a gromme=
t to the left of the bottom left corner of the control box. Is that correct=
? Or should it take a more central route?"<br><br>Disclaimer: I've not=
owned nor worked on a RHD car.<br><br>Since the speedometer gearing is on =
the left/port side of the O/D housing--unless RHD cars are different--on a =
LHD car the cable has to make, in effect, a 'hard' 90deg left turn. Yet, be=
sides the occasional glitch speedos in LHD cars work, well, OK (what matter=
s is that routing isn't so drastic as to kink or bind the cable). I can't s=
ee any purpose for the optional hole as the speedo cable would make a more =
graceful, easier turn to the right in a RHD car. My LHD BN2 has its cable j=
ust wedged between the gearbox cover and the scuttle, unless I installed it=
wrong.<br><br>I can't imagine why <i>any </i>speedo cable would need to go=
through the scuttle/firewall, if that's what you mean by 'control box' (ak=
a voltage regulator). Mechanical tach cables have to, though.<br><br><o:p><=
/o:p></p><div><p class=3DMsoNormal>On 11/5/2021 9:04 AM, Simon Lachlan via =
Healeys wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style=3D'margin-top:5.0pt;ma=
rgin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=3DMsoNormal>Looking back through my files, I ha=
ve contradictory info on this. So, here goes=E2=80=A6..<o:p></o:p></p><p cl=
ass=3DMsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>My car is a RHD M=
kII BT7 with a centre shift box. It thus has the fibre glass tunnel cover w=
hich, I gather, continued to the bitter end in =E2=80=9967.<o:p></o:p></p><=
p class=3DMsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>You may recal=
l that I sent in a pic of my tunnel cover a few weeks back and asked if it =
was an original or a latterly made repro. Thankfully, you said that it was =
original but it was pointed out that it had an extra hole. See attached. As=
I interpreted it, the =E2=80=9Cextra hole=E2=80=9D is to the right and the=
correct way in is through the centrally located =E2=80=9Ccorrect routing f=
or speedo cable=E2=80=9D.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal> <o:p></o=
:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Assuming that is correct, I am led to wonder fo=
r what purpose some PO had drilled that extra hole=E2=80=A6=E2=80=A6I wonde=
r if the speedo cable=E2=80=99s routing was so far out of line that it need=
ed a slight short cut to achieve its destination. My cable goes through a g=
rommet to the left of the bottom left corner of the control box. Is that co=
rrect? Or should it take a more central route?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMso=
Normal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p c=
lass=3DMsoNormal>Simon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p>=
</p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p>&nbs=
p;</o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>=
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