Re: Speedo

[Jan van de Wouw <Jan@xxxx>]

Hello,

Mike wrote:

> last year, a few days before i put my car away for the winter, the speedo
> stopped working. i figured that i would get it fixed once i get the car out
> this year. i took the car out of storage earlier this week and
> lo-and-behold, the speedo worked for about 20 minutes and then stopped
> working again. i find that it is working intermittantly. has this ever
> happened to anyone else?

There is a possibility the cable snapped and the ends hook up some of the time;
the cable consists of a bunch of thin strands of wire twisted into each other to
form the cable. The cable/shaft on my Angle Drive turns out to be broken too,
probably has been for the past two weeks, but the frayed ends hooked up and kept
it working for about 100 miles...

Now that I'm going to have to replace the Angle Drive this is probably a good
time to revise the entire system below the Lambdacounter: it turns out I still
have the 36" cable and am missing the support/guide bracket on the lower cable
(Thanks for the info to PJ Grady's).

I'm going to put on a rebuilt Angle Drive: according to their website this is
re-engineered to be able to take out the drive shaft through the hub too! It's
going to cost me more than I'd thought, but there's no point in fixing it only
half. Might as well do it ALL the right way...

Greetings,

JAN van de Wouw
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