Thanks Richard. I'll keep investigating this. The speedo worked for a
little while until I kicked it in, then shortly after that it konked out.
This happened to the mechanic as well, but he thought he had it fixed....
Ron
Vancouver
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
To: rroach <rroach@direct.ca>; spitfires <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:59 AM
>
>Ron,
>
>I just replaced my speedo cable last week - 1500 Spit with a J-type O/D,
all
> totally standard specification. The speedo end had a square drive, the
angle
> drive end of the cable had an oval drive as you describe (both the old one
> that came out and the replacement). The angle drive had a square drive to
the
> O/D (I think).
>
>So, unless the MGB angle drive is different to the standard Spitfire one,
the
> oval cable is correct. I'm afraid I never replaced the cable on the MG
BGT I
> once owned, so I cannot check that! Maybe you should ask the MG list...
>
>Other than that, simply removing the angle drive and looking at the female
bit
> that the cable goes in to, you should be able to see the shape that the
end of
> the cable needs to be - probably (never looked that close myself).
>
>Richard & Daffy
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