someone has made a dash for my 850 today i had to replace the temp gauge and while it was off i much prefer the original style dash.

im missing a few bits and pieces like the main part around the speedo, and the dash cards, i can do the dash cards.

Does anyone have any pics of theres they could post?

cheers.

Check out this "how to" http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12380

Cheers,

Dicko

yep i've got that part covered, i think thats an mk1 dash?

i was after what the 850 dash looks like so i can put mine back the way it was supposed to be.

anyone out there have pics of their 850 dash in original condition?

cheers.

ask Sports 850 really nicely

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

It's pretty basic but I'll put some pics up later . Mines the plain standard one with the white binacle , switch on the side for dash light and only the speedo .

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i thought he would i dont want to keep bothering him though....hahaha...

hmm...thats interesting i found a switch on the right side and was thinking what is that. so that lights up the speedo? i think mines on all the time.

that would be great. thanks everyone.

michael.

It's always amazed me why BMC put that dash light switch in their cars. They could have left it off & saved 50c and probably made less of a loss on each car

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.

Simple , that's so you can turn the lights on the speedo off so your girlfriend/wife/whoever doesn't know how fast you're hammering into the corners at

Here's the pic's , front on ,


Right side showing speedo light switch ,


Left side showing parcel shelf light (the opaquegrommet type thing) and switch . These were interchangable of course between left and right hand drive .


From behind , the speedo binacle is held in place by 4 (I think) bolts and captive nuts , you can see one of them in the top right .

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thanks sports850.

at the back of the speedo is there supposed to be a plate covering that? mine is also exposed doesn't look right.

im going to be placing a wanted ad for the surrounding shroud, if anyone has a spare thats in good nick...no \ minimal cracks please pm me.

cheers,

michael.

that chrome around the vinyl and speedo houseing would be impossible to get now days i think? have never noticed that before

There's normally a vynil mat thing across the firewall in the enginebay but I'm not sure if all mini's (850's especially) got it or not . Some photo's of new 850's in the early 60's have them and some don't so I don't know for sure . There was no seperate cover for the back of the speedo itself though .

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I think its the same or as near as makes no difference (except concourse mayby) to the chrome trim for arround the roof on the vinyl roof-d cars. availabe in the uk, in a roll to do a roof for about 5 pounds or somthing silly.

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speed costs....how fast do you want to go...

I don't know if you could bend the other stuff tight enough though , it's got to bend away from the open edge not sideways to it .

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They only had the switch because it was the law. Every car has them.

Interesting. What was the law exactly?

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1967 Cooper S - new front bearings to do.
1965 Cooper S shell - Slow progress. No time or money!
1966 Deluxe- next rustoration!
Mk 2 & XJ6 Jags. Less said the better.