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Re: Tach and Speedo

To: "Healey List" <healeys@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: Tach and Speedo
From: "John Soderling" <jsoderling@astound.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:28:04 -0800
Yes, try Nock's British Car Specialists in Stockton, CA.
Vrooom vrooom,
John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned Smith" <smithn00@kitepilot.net>
To: "Austin-Healey List" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: Tach and Speedo


> My choke knob was loose in the dashboard so I wanted to tighten it. First 
> I
> had to remove the tach.  The PO had lost or broken the holding brackets so
> he held it in by putting double face foam tape around the inside of the
> opening. I don't know how he got it in but I do know it took me several
> hours of pushing and prying to get it out. I tightened the choke retaining
> nut as best I could. It is recessed into the back of the dash so I ran a
> screw driver into the crevice between nut and wood and moved it a little 
> at
> a time.
>
>
>
> While I had the tach out I also took out the speedo. Both instruments look
> good. There are no blemishes on the face and the bezels need only polish.
> But all the rubber needs to be replaced. The tach does not read correctly
> and it needs a new socket for the generator light. The speedo needs the 
> trip
> reset stem to be replaced.
>
> Are parts available for me to fix these thing my self?
>
>
>
> Ned Smith
>
> BJ8
>
> near Chattanooga, TN




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