[Healeys] Spedo/Cable/Angle Drive - BJ8

[Michael Salter]

Actually it has been my experience that angle drive failure can often be
traced to a tight or seized component in the speedometer itself, frequently
either the odometer or trip meter tumblers.
Inserting a small flat blade screwdriver into the cable socket and spinning
it anticlockwise (as I recall) to simulate forward movement of the car will
often reveal that the drive tightens up after a short period of operation.

Michael Salter
100 (1953) #174
AHX12 (1953)
Bugeye (1961)
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/?p=432

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Peter Schauss
Sent: July 26, 2009 9:21 PM
To: 'R. Price Lindsay'; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Spedo/Cable/Angle Drive - BJ8

Price,

This is a long shot, but I have had two angle drives fail, apparently,
because I reset the trip counter while the car was moving.

YMMV,
Peter Schauss
1963 BJ7
1980 MGB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-
> bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of R. Price Lindsay
> Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:22 PM
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Healeys] Spedo/Cable/Angle Drive - BJ8
> 
> 
> OK, what's the cause?  Should the cable in the speedo turn easily?
> Could the speedo have failed?  Could the angle drive have failed/been
> faulty?
> 
> Price Lindsay
> 67 BJ8