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RE: Speedo repair.

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Speedo repair.
From: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 19:54:02 -0400
' Suggest you unscrew the trip odometer reset somewhere before "5)".

Allen

From: "Alan Lott" <lottala@mail.auburn.edu>
>
>Scott,
>
>1) lay on driver's floorboard on your back
>2) use flashlight to find the back-side of the speedo
>3) wedge hand up behind instruments and loosen/remove two thumbscrews
>holding gauge in
>4) either unscrew the cable now or try to carefully tip the gauge out and
>remove the cable once the speedo is partially out of the panel
>5) remove instrument light/wire from speedo
>6) marvel at your good work
>
>piece of cake ... so dive right in :) ... good luck
>
>~alan
>'71B
>Reply to:
>Alan Lott
>GTA, Auburn Univeristy
>Department of Rehabilitation and Special Education
>
>My Office-     (334) 844-2092
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>
> -----Original Message-----
>From:  owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]  On Behalf
>Of Scott/Michelle
>Sent:  Saturday, July 03, 1999 8:38 PM
>To:    mgs@autox.team.net
>Subject:       Speedo repair.
>
>As a very new DIY mechanic, Ihave reservations about jumping into the wicked
>realm of speedo repair. I suspect that the cable is bad, I have tried to
>gander beneath the dash, and I am afraid to jumo in and start ripping stuff
>out. Can anyone give me a good step by step of the job, and hopefully
>someone can supply some do's and dont's. I have yet to tackle the ever
>prominent electrical challenge of this car. but I want to learn to be
>proficient enough to repair some of the small things on my own.
>TIA
>Scott
>75 MGB, hopelessl yin love foreve with my LBC
>95 Jeep Wrangler, LBC Support, with the top down too!
>

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