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Re: Speedo Cable.

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Subject: Re: Speedo Cable.
From: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:40:12 -0800
The angle drive is not necessary, and is often removed as just another piece
to break. You probably want to look at the speedo end for clues...

on 3/28/02 3:44 PM, McLaren, Doug at doug.mclaren@electricalsafety.on.ca
wrote:

...
> This new found confidence is not necessarily a good thing. I have now bought
> a second MGB, a 79, that originated in Texas and has an excellent body but
> was maintained by a PO who was not too mechanical. I won't list all of the
> things that didn't work but I have managed to fix most of them. However, the
> speedo still does not work. I checked it out and found out that there is no
> angle drive at the transmission and a "different" cable was installed
> directly from the hub on the transmission looping out and up to the
> speedometer. Should this work or is the angle drive a necessity?
> 
> Doug
> 78 MGB
> 79 MGB
> 

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
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it's the primer red one with chrome wires

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