Speedo gone nuts!

["jamesrguk" <dmc12@xxxx>]

Hi all,

I was out on Saturday night and having had new tyres, Casey's new air 
filter and re-ballenced and tracked wheels I thought I would give the 
car a bit of welly down the A12 (dual carridgeway).

Anyway it shifted along quite nicley and the spedo comfortably got 
back round to the 'M' on 'MPH' at the bottom of the speedo, but 
thenmy turning came up so I had to resume normalspeed.

Anway later that night I heard a clicking sound in the drivers foot 
well and the speedo started to jump around, then the clicking stopped 
and the speedo died.

I had a fiddle with the lower and upper drive cables and both seemed 
to be ok, but what does the white box in the drivers footwell do? I 
think this is where the noise was comming from and therefore expect 
the problem lies here.

Any help appreciated as always.


James RG
Colchester
England