David Jenkins
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| posted on 17/6/06 at 04:42 PM |
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Looking for useful suggestion - Type 9 box speedo outlet
I'm looking for a bit of brain-storming...
I have made a speedo sender that fits into the hole where the speedo cable usually fits (see picture below of part of the device). This has worked
very well up until recently, when it started to go a bit peculiar. This meant that I had to take it out, refit and test, take it out again, and so
on.
 
speedo sender
My problem is that normally the speedo cable is held in with a circlip. I tried to use the circlip to hold in my sender, and it was hard enough when
the box was on the bench. Now it's in the car it's near-enough impossible, even after I cut out an access hatch in the tunnel side to get at
it.
So now I'm trying to devise some other way of holding the sender firmly in the hole. It's very light and there's no side loads
involved, so there's no great effort required.
Can anyone suggest a fixing method that's fairly easy to operate when your access is limited?
cheers,
David
[Edited on 17/6/06 by David Jenkins]
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James
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| posted on 17/6/06 at 05:28 PM |
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Zip ties....
 
Don't know if this would work but what about tapping the hole is sits in (clearly a big, fine tap needed) then slip a tubular bolt over your
steel tube and screw it into the thread.
If you can't tap it then maybe a large helicoil?
What I'm trying to say is like a large brake nut with your sender tube acting as the brake pipe.
Make sense?
Cheers,
James
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BKLOCO
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| posted on 17/6/06 at 06:27 PM |
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David. I had a similar problem getting my sender in and fixing it with a circlip but with perseverance and a pair of cranked circlip pliers it was
just possible.
I am away for the next few days but if you need to borrow a pair of cranked internal circlip pliers let me know and I'll drop a pair round to
you.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want!!! 
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violentblue
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| posted on 17/6/06 at 08:09 PM |
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Duct Tape? (Gaffer tape for you blokes on the other side of the pond)
a few pics of my other projects
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Dave Ashurst
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| posted on 18/6/06 at 05:50 PM |
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Fabricate something like this perhaps?
Image deleted by owner
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/6/06 at 07:55 AM |
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Dave, the trouble is that the box is in situ - so fancy engineering is out of the question. It would be a nice solution though.
My latest thought is to glue a ring around the lump that the speedo cable goes into, and rig something up to that (springs, metal clip, or
something).
I'll get there in the end - but the circlip pliers may be useful! (I'll get back to you on that one...)
cheers,
David
[Edited on 19/6/06 by David Jenkins]
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