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HealeyRick
Rick Neville

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12/19/2007 05:01PM

Main British Car:
1963 Austin-Healey 3000 Ford 5.0L

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Speedo Cable
Posted by: HealeyRick
Date: November 12, 2010 05:36PM

I'm trying to connect the Austin Healey speedo cable to my T5Z. Anyone have any suggestions how to do it?

Thanks,

Rick


ex-tyke
Graham Creswick
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
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Registered:
10/25/2007 11:17AM

Main British Car:
1976 MGB Ford 302

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Re: Speedo Cable
Posted by: ex-tyke
Date: November 12, 2010 10:31PM

D&D sells a speedo cable for a T5 (Ford or GM) to mate to a typical MGB Smiths mechanical speedo, If the Healey gauges are anything similar to the MGB, then that's one possibility.


DC Townsend
David Townsend
Vermont
(406 posts)

Registered:
11/21/2007 12:22PM

Main British Car:
'78 B (almost done) 30-over SBF, dry sump

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Re: Speedo Cable
Posted by: DC Townsend
Date: November 17, 2010 06:02AM

Rick,

Europa Spares at [www.europaspares.com] stocks several varieties of adapters. I've purchased a number of items from them over the years and service has always been spot on. Prices are reasonable even factoring in the exchange rate. A small part like the adapter will come via post.

DT
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kerbau53
Geoff Morton
Naples, FL
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08/09/2010 10:27PM

Main British Car:
78 MGB Ford 5L

Re: Speedo Cable
Posted by: kerbau53
Date: November 27, 2010 11:08PM

Try Speedy Cables UK


DiDueColpi
Fred Key
West coast - Canada
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05/14/2010 03:06AM

Main British Car:
I really thought that I'd be an action figure by now!

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Re: Speedo Cable
Posted by: DiDueColpi
Date: December 21, 2010 04:27AM

Just an idea Rick,

why not switch to an electronic speedo?
No more messing with gears trying to get it to read right. No more broken cables. No more swapping parts out just because you changed tire sizes or gear ratios.
To keep the stock look I take Autometer guages and build them into the stock Smiths housings

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Other than the big bezzels and the carbon fiber that I used on this dash the guages look stock. All of them, even the small ones are Auto meter under the skin.
Hope that's a help

Cheers
Fred



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HealeyRick
Rick Neville

(490 posts)

Registered:
12/19/2007 05:01PM

Main British Car:
1963 Austin-Healey 3000 Ford 5.0L

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Re: Speedo Cable
Posted by: HealeyRick
Date: December 21, 2010 07:43PM

Nice idea, Fred. That really looks great. If you check my build, [forum.britishv8.org], I've already managed to adapt all the original Smiths gauges with the exception of the speedo, so I'm probably going to stick with the old fashioned stuff, Thanks for the posting, though.


DiDueColpi
Fred Key
West coast - Canada
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Main British Car:
I really thought that I'd be an action figure by now!

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Re: Speedo Cable
Posted by: DiDueColpi
Date: December 21, 2010 07:54PM

Nicely done Rick.

I see that I'm preaching to the converted (pun intended)

Cheers
Fred



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