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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Simon,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a fiberglass trans cover that is yet to be installed that came from another LHD Healey. The hole that is open on yours has a rubber plug on mine and your pluged hole is open. It would make sense the speedo cable routing for RHD drive cars uses the hole normally pluged for LHD cars.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Harold<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">Bob Spidell via Healeys</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, November 5, 2021 9:57 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] Speedo cable routing.</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>re: "I wonder if the speedo cable’s routing was so far out of line that it needed a slight short cut to achieve its destination. My cable goes through a grommet to the left of the bottom left corner of the control box. Is that correct? Or should it take a more central route?"<br><br>Disclaimer: I've not owned nor worked on a RHD car.<br><br>Since the speedometer gearing is on the left/port side of the O/D housing--unless RHD cars are different--on a LHD car the cable has to make, in effect, a 'hard' 90deg left turn. Yet, besides the occasional glitch speedos in LHD cars work, well, OK (what matters is that routing isn't so drastic as to kink or bind the cable). I can't see any purpose for the optional hole as the speedo cable would make a more graceful, easier turn to the right in a RHD car. My LHD BN2 has its cable just wedged between the gearbox cover and the scuttle, unless I installed it wrong.<br><br>I can't imagine why <i>any </i>speedo cable would need to go through the scuttle/firewall, if that's what you mean by 'control box' (aka voltage regulator). Mechanical tach cables have to, though.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 11/5/2021 9:04 AM, Simon Lachlan via Healeys wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Looking back through my files, I have contradictory info on this. So, here goes…..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My car is a RHD MkII BT7 with a centre shift box. It thus has the fibre glass tunnel cover which, I gather, continued to the bitter end in ’67.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You may recall that I sent in a pic of my tunnel cover a few weeks back and asked if it was an original or a latterly made repro. Thankfully, you said that it was original but it was pointed out that it had an extra hole. See attached. As I interpreted it, the “extra hole” is to the right and the correct way in is through the centrally located “correct routing for speedo cable”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Assuming that is correct, I am led to wonder for what purpose some PO had drilled that extra hole……I wonder if the speedo cable’s routing was so far out of line that it needed a slight short cut to achieve its destination. My cable goes through a grommet to the left of the bottom left corner of the control box. Is that correct? Or should it take a more central route?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Simon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>