Note when you buy a new speedo cable these days they are usually bone dry inside, and sometimes come with free rust.There is no seal in the speedo head.
Recommended practice has always been to grease the inner cable (preferably with molygrease) before fitting, but leave the top 150mm dry.
If you grease the whole thing, grease often ends up in the speedo head causing symptoms as described.
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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

It's the older center one with KM/H and mph in small text,
I am going to pick the car back up from the mechanics tomorrow and i will sus it out once i get home.

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Current: 1970 Mini K 2014 Focus ST
Past: 93 Rover, 64 850, 97 Rover, 66 Deluxe, 66 Moke
81 Austin Estate, 2006 R53MCS, 66 Deluxe, 1978 Clubbie
2014 Land Rover Defender 90

how do you place grease in the cable?

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Pull the inner cable out the top.

[edit] preferably before fitting but can be done afterwards.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

That will cause the cable to fluctuate as well wont it??

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last few days car has turned over slowly. Yesterday went to go home from school, turned over once slowly and then wouldnt work.

Went home grabbed a new starter motor and went up and swapped. Turned over and started a breeze. 38yrs from a starter motor motor is pretty good i suppose.

Then today heard a banging noise under the car. both exhaust mounts have broken and so exhaust is just hanging there. Project for the weekend.

Brenton

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Nope not really, unless kinked, but if unlubed it'll squeak and give you the sh!ts.. as it did me.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Ausmini quote of the year there kev hahahaha

A: Did the loose front wheel thing. Drove 10k to the city and return home, wheel fell off 50m from my drive way, rolled up the gutter and onto the footpath nearly hitting a person. Grinding to a halt and making apologies is a solid memory hook. I also have a 20m gouge on the road as a constant reminder. Now my mantra is "finger tight while up, bloody tight when down"

Needed a RWCert for a clubman once and the drivers footwell had some rust through spyholes needing to be covered. Well used black bitumen body deadener and on the bigger one cut some tin to pop rivet over before more deadener was to go on. Problems with brain thinking as 1:battery still connected 2:working in sequence ment body deadener already covering everything 3: Poprivets need holes 4:1/8 drill bit is a great conductor. Needless to say the drill bit hit the under floor battery cable and shorted into the floor covered with body deadener and all hell broke loose. Later I smile recounting this bit. The drill bit arced and caught the body deadener on fire. The the drill bit snapped as I jerked the drill sideways with some fright. I proceeded to slap my hand up and down on the flames that were trying to spread and impaled my hand on the now broken drill bit. I then yank it off to have my holed and tared hand catch on fire. My father tells me the yells of pleasure coming from my mouth were rather femanine for a bloke. Anyway he came running and picked up a bucket of sand and threw it on the floor to cover the tar and grabbed my hand and stuck it in the sand pile. The flames out and dad disconnected the battery, my hand bleeding with 2 puncture holes (the first slap must not have registered), tarred and sanded. It took a long time to clean up that mess using the left hand. Another memory hook "keep bucket of sand closer" hehe That day I learnt to run through a process in my head before winging it. It's the best was to see the near death experience happen without getting hurt.

The gear linkage on top of the gearbox had come loose again. Oh well I say, not bad for a 62 vintage. Out with the welder to make it stick proper like! Well the flames from the grease igniting got to my elbow before the now "close to hand" bucket o sand was deployed by a mate. I remember saying, "if you see flames then chuck the bucket of sand on them". Of course he wasn't looking because the welder was to bright for unshielded eyes. So the time delay allowed said feminine screams to escape and bucket of sand to hit my head before falling down onto the hot zone. Later on I asked why he threw the sand on me and he said I looked worse then the flames!

I see myself as a teacher! so other people can learn from my mistakes.

lol

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- '74 Clubman Ute project

I made the mistake of driving my car yesterday. Valve stem on the front right threw up a protest. Ok, got a spare. Jack won't fit in the jack whole due to a) rust b) poor attempt to fix rust, which made the hole too smal for the jack to now fit into.

You would be surprised how many people at a service station don't know they have a scissor jack in their car......

I'm leaning towards not fitting my newly acquired parts to this car given its current condition.

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But he's thriving and striving and hugging the turns.

Want to buy a nice blue 850 shell JC or, how about a deluxe shell in need of paint? Maybe Kuzzy's 1/2 cage shell is an option too? For more work but less $ there is a body shell in Slack's Creek on eBay.

M

Ive got the all clear for a shed Mark.....

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But he's thriving and striving and hugging the turns.

The Alternator

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Current: 1970 Mini K 2014 Focus ST
Past: 93 Rover, 64 850, 97 Rover, 66 Deluxe, 66 Moke
81 Austin Estate, 2006 R53MCS, 66 Deluxe, 1978 Clubbie
2014 Land Rover Defender 90

my windscreen!

was parked with the nose pointing downhill, I flipped the passenger seat forward to put something in the back - it came forward with a "bang" - laminated screen now rooted

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?