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Subject:Re: speedo cable
From:neil
Date:Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:25:27 -0500

The speedoo on my 81 AC connects on drivers side.
Someone kindly put a little putty around clip/end of
speedo cable (that sticks out of cap). Likely to
*help* keep water out.

Although it's never happened to me, I *imagine* if
clip/pin was not installed, the cable could have work
its' way out.

Cheers,

Neil.

--- mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> My dumbass mechanic ( a long story I'd rather not
> revisit) repacked both
> front bearings today and appears to have either not
> reconnected the cable at
> the wheel or broke it in process. He blithely told
> me that on this car, it's
> nothing to do with the hub.
>
> Which wheel does it fix to? What could he have
> broken? IF he didn't put back
> the circlip on the dustcap, would the cable slip out
> to the point of
> rendering the speedometer non-functional?
>
> I'm trying to leave on holiday tomorrow and now I
> have to return to his shop
> first AM.
>
> I vow to make time to do my own repairs henceforth.
> Color me vexed.
>
> --
> mordo
> 1990 Carat
>

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