[Healeys] re my previous Speedo query and angle drive question

[John Vrugtman]

Since the cable broke, that might indicate that the speedo is binding.

John
64/66 BJ8s

On 12/12/2010 2:09 PM, Simon Lachlan wrote:
> Reference my previous question on (dead) speedos....
>
> Once again, many thanks for all the replies and data.
>
> Now, I did spot an angle drive going cheap on eBay and just resisted buying
> it. (Is it just me or does anyone else throw new parts at a problem until it
> goes away?)
>
> I raised the tunnel cover and got to the angle drive.
>
> The speedo cable was broken about 4in up from the angle drive. So that much
> is solved.
>
> Do these things often break? Mine doesn't do many miles and I don't think I
> was stressing it by, for example, having it at too acute an angle.
>
> And should the angle drive be removed and serviced(?) in any way whilst it's
> accessible?
>
> I presume that one just loosens off the round brass cross-hatched threaded
> wotsit and the drive just comes off?
>
> Simon.