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Re: TR-6 speedo cable routing

To: Ken Streeter <streeter@sanders.com>
Subject: Re: TR-6 speedo cable routing
From: "Doug Mitchell" <dmitchel@ford.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:51:54 -0400 "Re: TR-6 speedo cable routing" (Jul 29, 8:48am)
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
References: <199607291248.IAA04549@hobbes.sanders.lockheed.com>
On Jul 29,  8:48am, Ken Streeter wrote:
> Subject: Re: TR-6 speedo cable routing
>
[snip]
>
> Along these same lines, I've heard tell that there is a "right-angle" drive
> available for the speedo cable on the TR6, so that the speedo cable doesn't
> have to make a 90-degree bend in the confined space between the transmission
> and the tranny tunnel cover/floor pans.  My cable takes a sharp bend at that
> point, that I think may be responsible for speedo bounce.  (My speedo
> bounce is negligible at 10-30mph, but pretty major at 50+.)
>
> --ken
> '74 TR6 Daily Driver
>
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>-- End of excerpt from Ken Streeter


Ken,

I seem to remember that TRF lists a right angle adapter for the
speedo cable, it might be listed for the overdrive model.

Doug Mitchell

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