Just hadda go and ruin a perfectly good story by saying it didn't work.
Now didn't ya. Ruined my day.
Larry ;-)
At this exact moment in time 5/9/00 10:47 AM, Ajhsys@aol.com made the
profound statement:
>In a message dated 5/8/00 10:28:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>jboatri@emory.edu writes:
>
><< The cable end itself is square in cross-section. The cable housing
> has an end fitting that crimps onto the housing at one end and is
> rather bell shaped at the end that runs up against the speedo. Inside
> of this fitting is a little piece of white plastic that fits over the
> cable (it has a square hole through its longitudinal axis). Around
> the end fitting is a threaded collar that cinches the whole thing
> onto the speedo, which has a threaded cylinder sticking out of the
> back. The cable end fits into a square hole inside of this cylinder. >>
>
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>All this talk about spedo cables brought back a memory from the old
>days when I owned a '67 Rover 2000TC with a bum speedometer. The
>needle bounced as the car moved. I bought a speedo drive repair kit
>that included a white plastic piece with the proper square end to fit in
>the speedo. The way you used it was to heat the metal end of the
>cable with a match and then plunge it into the back of the plastic piece.
>The heat melted the adhesive in the hole and when cooled, you now
>had a new speedo drive in place of the one that was buggered.
>
>Of course, that didn't fix the speedo, but it was neat to do. It turned
>out to be a bad angle drive gear.
>
>Allen Hefner
>SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
>'77 Midget
>'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
Larry Macy
78 Midget
Keep your top down and your chin up
Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a
question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
|