The concern with the speedo cable is that the inner cable cannot push into
the speedometer, or it will quickly wear out the bushings & wind up to the
high peg (what is that,140?) as soon as the car starts to move.
The quick & dirty solution is to shim the outer cable away from the
speedometer using a spacer that will go inside the the knurled nut that
attaches to the speedo, or even quicker & dirtier, leave the knurled nut
loose.
I have been running with the nut loose for several years & the speedometer
is just as inaccurate as it was when I first installed the cable, but the
inaccuracy has not changed & the speedo does not wind up to the peg. One of
these days I will try to calibrate the darn thing, but at least I know that
indicated 85 keeps me up with highway traffic & does not get me a ticket.
Doug Leithauser
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 00:46:24 -0700
From: "Chris Hill" <Pirouette@uisreno.com>
Subject: speedo cable
Listers,
My (non-list) buddy put on a new speedo cable some time back and shortly
thereafter developed a pulsing above about 30 MPH. Seems I read something
on
here about new cables being too long (and maybe eating the speedo too?!!).
I
need to get the right info back to him ASAP before he has Jaeger soup.
Help!!?????????
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