[Mgs] Leaking speedometer cable fitting.

[mgbob at juno.com]

Hi Don,  There might be two issues here. My similar experience was that the tach was jumping. Original cable seemed to have slight kinking that I made better, but instrument still jumped. Bought and installed the Moss cable, which is a current design and probably better. Instrument still jumped which, it turned out, was caused by bearing in the head allowing the cup to contact the rotating magnet. Once repaired, the tach read fine.  Eventually I re-installed the original cable, because to me it looked better. And it dripped. Dripping might have been my doing, as I oiled the cable liberally and may have not wiped it dry enough, and it could be that the cable is working grease up from the reduction drive on the dynamo. Speedo can work it up from the gearbox.   A big drip can come from connection of oil pressure pipe to the gauge, something worth checking.Bob

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Donald Joseph Toy via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net>
To: mgs at autox.team.net
Subject: [Mgs] Leaking speedometer cable fitting.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 06:13:36 -0400

Sages of the list, 
In the past i have had a problem, like most T series owners, with the wild fluctuations of my speedometer.I had pulled the original cable and found a fairly large kink in it. I did some vise clamping and some gentle persuasion on the cable jacket and returned it to a roundish shape. however this didn’t help the problem. I ordered the non original cable from Moss which is a sealed cable with a plastic jacket. I finally had a semi decent speedometer reading.  Then we started to notice that drips of oil were coming out of the top of the cable nearest the speedometer, followed by my speedometer going all the way up and sticking at the top speed. (no way in h3ll). Any fixes on stopping this oil from working its way up from the tranny?
Donald Joseph Toy
dontoy at comcast.net
“all great men are dead…and I’m not feeling well"

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