Bill L's information is correct.
I bought 3 angle drives from Paul in the last year he was able to
still offer product. He was not able to supply them any longer custom
geared. I know where to get the exact same angle drives, but they are
geared 1:1 and they are not cheap.
I do have available. new manufactured cables with adapter that is a
"turnkey" installation. These are approximately half the price of
other solutions and there's no need for the angle drive. I've supplied
more than a dozen of these with complete customer satisfaction. I've
heard from a number of people whose angle drives have been "eaten up"
for whatever reason and replaced multiple times too. I don't consider
the additional cost for the angle drive to be cost effective for the
little bit of speed correction it provides, but that's an individual
decision. Depending on your gearing/tire combination your error may
vary, but I'm currently test driving a 73 Midget (3.9) with 155R13
with my kit and speedo cable installed and speed error is about 10%. I
can go out with my GPS and test at different speeds if anyone one
interested in more specific info.
I have 3 new cables left to be used in concert with the BMC cable if
anyone is interested. They are about half price of the turnkey ones.
Contact me off list for additional info.
Gerard
http://gerardsgarage.com/
On Sep 12, 2011, at 9:38 PM, spridgets-request@autox.team.net wrote:
> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:54:47 -0700
> From: Bill L <pythias@pacifier.com>
> To: Peter Shull <pdx.pete@frontier.com>
> Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] 5-speed speedo drive question.
> Message-ID: <198606564.20110912165447@pacifier.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> Hello Peter,
>
> What I know:
>
> Near the end, The place where he was getting them done would no
> longer do custom gearing. He could standard gears made in the
> angle drive but wouldn't make them for him based on ALL the
> information.... transmission, tire size, speedo gearing. He was
> trying to find another source that WOULD do that but he hadn't
> found one (to my knowledge).
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