Driving off recently, I heard a tick, tick, tick which developed into a clack, clack clack. A glance at the speedo revealed no reading.
Back home I removed the fascia binnacle and withdrew the inner speedo cable expecting to find a break. It was intact!
I replaced it and placed a 1" square of cardboard on the end. A quick drive down the road revealed no turning of the cable.
Wadhams supplied me with an angled drive for the gearbox which I duly fitted. On the original, the short cable on the gearbox side was in two halves so that was obviously the cause of the speedo failure.
With everything reassembled I did another road test. Still no speedo! I have known even brand new parts to fail so I tested again with the cardboard which tuned.
This left the angle drive behind the speedo as the culprit. When tested it turned but was sticky in its action.
It was replaced with a "new old stock" item with identical part number.
Duly installed, a road test revealed still no speedo.
In desperation, a s/h speedo was bought from Wins Int. I checked that it was working and popped it in. Still no speedo.
I have now run out of ideas as to where the fault lies. Can anyone help me please?
Back home I removed the fascia binnacle and withdrew the inner speedo cable expecting to find a break. It was intact!
I replaced it and placed a 1" square of cardboard on the end. A quick drive down the road revealed no turning of the cable.
Wadhams supplied me with an angled drive for the gearbox which I duly fitted. On the original, the short cable on the gearbox side was in two halves so that was obviously the cause of the speedo failure.
With everything reassembled I did another road test. Still no speedo! I have known even brand new parts to fail so I tested again with the cardboard which tuned.
This left the angle drive behind the speedo as the culprit. When tested it turned but was sticky in its action.
It was replaced with a "new old stock" item with identical part number.
Duly installed, a road test revealed still no speedo.
In desperation, a s/h speedo was bought from Wins Int. I checked that it was working and popped it in. Still no speedo.
I have now run out of ideas as to where the fault lies. Can anyone help me please?