Dashboard….
Myself and my driver/ team manager / car husband wish full instrumentation for Bolzano 09. We may be aiming to high. DAT believes this is ‘nonsense and unnecessary’ but we’re giving it a good go. I never remember this occurring in my history of the car (all 46 years). I remember brief speedo and rev counter moments. MOT men are always surprised when the mileage never changes, I’m not.
Rev counter
How the gears looked?
The rev-counter gears £28 were relatively straight forward to fit by the man who did lots in March and September in his Huddersfield workshop. "They needed boring and skimming across their back face, and the bronze housing hole was worn and needed bushing, all in all a day's work, and I still had no proper cap for this housing." JB even asked on the VSCC forum, but sadly DATs plastic oil bottle top is back in place with a ring of gaffa tape.
January 09 we are still working on this- it’s a vintage motorbike fitting so if anyone has one sitting around…please let me know.
The Speedo
I took a tin full of cables and cogs to Huddersfield and the expert remounted the “good sturdy bracket and mighty handsome cog” Here JB and DAT discuss the speedo gear attachement. But it was clear that it needed a longer cable? A tight cable and a tight bend by the bevel box meant this didn’t work.
31/01/09 just fitted the new right angle drive and cable from speedy cables
Temperature gauge
This ceased to function a few years ago but despites dad’s moanings we think it is a useful asset when hammering the car up a mountain or sitting in a traffic jam (It took us an hour to get out of Mullhouse in 1999 – my driver didn’t speak to me for hours!! and boiling in my experience adds extra stress) Anyway there was grave news with the old temperature gauge. The curved pressurised tube inside the gauge has a hole in it and Speedograph who normally repair them, can't. We cross questioned master bodger DAT about this and it turns out that the gauge is from mothers twin tub washing machine from the 1970’s- no wonder it’s irreparable….. The sender unit which is in the header tank is a size which needs a horrible adaptor, which has rusted and failed. The pipe has snapped off there too. Basically its shagged at both ends. We decided to opt for a modern temperature gauge inside the old instrument housing. It looks fantastic and was tried and tested in a saucepan on my car husbands cooker in deepest Wiltshire prior to fitting this weekend. Check out that dashboard imagine if it all works....
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