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Re: Smiths instruments (and stereo)

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Subject: Re: Smiths instruments (and stereo)
From: Cory Carpenter <coryc@sequent.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 92 10:48:44 -0800
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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