Tacho as in `tachometer'. It reads engine speed. Once you program your brain with MPH or KMH/1000 revs you can work out what apeed you're doing.

Alas, you will need the speedo to work for the annual rego inspection (if these exist down there in the `wild south'...)

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Do you really have to get a car inspected annually, or is this a joke that i don't understand, becasue we do not have to get cars inspected?

And thanks for the tacho description, i was really stuck with it

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yeah they have to get roadworthy's every year.....sorta like MoT's they get done in the uk

its not til you get pulled over that anything gets checked here in SA

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Ah, but that's why you guys all get pulled over so often- it's the only way the fuzz can enforce roadworthiness!

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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.

Hmmmm, are you talking about the spring loaded, cam driven, pawl that advances the odometer for you as the speedo goes round and round????

Most common problem with these is that originally they start with a nice sharp edge to engage the odometer gear. Eventually the nice sharp edge becomes a nice rolled edge!! If you catch it early enough some very very careful filing can restore your edge and give you a few thousand clicks more service.

Remove the spring clip holding the pawl on and carefully slide out the cam drive - clean in white spirit or similar then apply a small amount of Molybdenum Disulphide grease to the annulus on the shaft (if too much oozes out when you replace it - you have too much - wipe away all excess grease). Similarly, jus a little on the main drive gear.

Cable advice as above.

Some people can be a little rough forcing the cable into the speedo head and this can lead to the drive gear and rotating magnet to foul the aluminium drag cup.

They aren't exactly a precision instrument but they do need care....

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And did you ever get pulled by the fuzz? pretty painfull innit?

Mike,
Last time I got `pulled over' was in 1969, "touch wood"...

I was cruising the Fiat 124 Sport up the Pacific Hwy on the north coast at about 110MPH (180 clicks) and the fuzz chased me 20 miles in his poor little Cooper S.. he said he was doing 106mph (it was downhill). He was not amused...
Road was not speed zoned then, so he did me for `drive at speed dangerous'.
I got off eventually, after 2 court appearances. That charge was always hard for them to prove unless you ran off the road or hit something/someone.

So now, I try to keep a low profile. Don't draw attention, and you are halfway there.

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I seem to notice that around here the cops are pretty linient with the mini, even at "random" breath checks they often waive me through.

With the "pulled by the fuzz" I was trying to repeat a joke that I heard from a transvestite stand-up comedian awhile ago "Girls did you ever get picked up by the fuzz? Very painfull isn't it?".

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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.

And a cooper S at 106 damn that wouldn't be easy to keep on the road- could you have escaped if you wanted to?

Heh.. no I was flat as a tack. I didn't know he was there, until I slowed down...

He chased me almost from Raymond Terrace to Buladelah- at Waterholes Gap he was 200yards behind- so he said, from there to Bulahdelah (downhill) I gained 1/2 a mile on him. As I said, he was "not happy, jan"

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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.

Hey kev I was always wondering, as someone who was there when you could buy a cooper S new how affordable were they by the then standards? I mean we all know how much they cost nominaly but for a bloke to buy one then (considering the fact that cars were in general less affordable right?) - was it like buying a charade, or like buying commodore or like buying a $45K MX5?

They were $2,280 in the mid to late 60's. My Fiat 124S cost me $3,648 in `69. A Holden Premier was around $3,000.

S price seems cheap, but a tradesman's wage back then was only $60 or $70/week.

Problem with the S was getting one, the production volume was low. Dealers didn't like selling them to kids. Too much power...! So they sold us a Mini Deluxe instead, for 1/2 the price.

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he he...as i came burning around this bend with the mini going mental in third gear (it was a wide road, late at night...with a barrier between the lanes)...anyway i swung around the bend and there were all these lights and i got pulled over into this bretho......the cop had a huge grin on his face and was just like "i know they're fun around the corners.....but dont forget the speed limit" i thought it was pretty funny

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i think most mini drivers have had that happen i had a old sarge pull me up in my first mini and he told me how they had them in the late 60's and as a young constable it was hard to get in behind the wheel as that was the higher ranking officers privilage so i sez wanna come for a spin and when we get of the mains you can have a blatt did not have to ask twice
btw i was doing 80 in a 60 zone i did not cop a fine
nice ocifer he was
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