Bud,
I suggest you remove inner core, clean well (at least wipe off the old grease),
lube the core thoroughly with molybdenum grease, the stuff the core
back down into the housing and wipe up the excess. No need to force grease
down the housing. Cleaning the housing, if it's not plastic covered, would be
important.
BTW, are you sure it's the cable making the noise, not the speedometer?
They can make a racket when the drive shaft gets worn.
Blake suggests:
>For lubrication I prefer to use pure graphite as it contains no oil
>or grease which will combine with dirt and metal particles to form the gum
>again.
In a former life I used to repair speedos and tachs and make cables and
housings. The informed opinion amongst the guys in the shop was that
graphite was bad for speedos because it would work up into the drive shaft
and cause wear (it's 'abrasive'). FWIW. I have seen badly worn instruments
with and without graphite in them.
Ben suggests:
>I have used shrink tube to make a plastic sheath on the outside of the
>cable. I put on a double layers make sure it is substantial. You can now
>blow lubricant down the cable, and the plastic reduces the likelihood of
>kinks.
Cool idea. Does the heatshrink stand up well to oil and grease?
Rich
At 07:32 PM 9/18/00 , you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
> The speedometer cable is intermittently noisy. Twelve hours' worth
> would
>be a bit much for Thursday's trip. Any suggestions on a form of lubricant
>that
>I can inject from the speedometer end? TIA. BTW, thanks to advice from
>listers, I'll be alternating between US20 and I90 on the trip to Rochester.
>--
>Bud Krueger
>http://home.ici.net/~bkrueger/
>52TD
>77MGB
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Rich Strobel 1948 MG TC 5841 XPAG 6410
Vancouver, WA
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