Phil sez:
>dash, appear to be the 2" round size. Right-to-left, they are: Smiths fuel
>level, coolant temperature, and oil pressure. The left gauge is a
>Stewart-Warner ammeter. I think the car was originally equipped with a Smiths
>ammeter (not voltmeter). Not surprisingly, the order is the reverse of the
>right-hand drive cars in the books. All the Smiths 2" gauges have the needle
>and face on the bottom half of the circle. The gauges are all black with white
>letters. They are all strictly electric in hookup (no emulsion tubes or
>pressure tubes) except for the cable-driven speedometer. I see no evidence of
>a voltage stabilizer. Maybe this series of Smiths gauges does not need one?
These sound like mine, with the exception of the ammeter. Mine's a
Lucas, while the other instruments are Smiths. Original? Who knows.
Bear in mind that my Europa's a '69, so there may have been changes
between it and Phil's.
I haven't looked for a voltage stabilizer, although there are plenty of
metal cans on the back side of the dash which *could* be one. The
wiring diagram does show a stabilizer. Phil, I thought this car had
"former-owner syndrome," could the stabilizer have been removed when the
TTL-logic stuff was installed?
>mounted on the lower edge of the dash and has a quasi-flexible cable leading to
>the speedometer housing. The knob will not turn, but exhibits a "spring" in
>its small rotation that leads me to believe that the jam is inside the
>speedometer housing and I am torquing the cable when I test it. I am sure the
>speedometer worked, but I don't know about the odometer and trip odometer.
I'll check this at lunchtime -- as I recall the trip odometer reset
must be turned counter-clockwise to zero it out. Took me awhile to
figure that out.
-coryc
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