ROO the 1973 Mini Window Van has 3 gauge pod installed and I'm guessing it would have left factory with a 2 gauge pod??

Speedo/Odo on left, Tach on right, with Fuel & Temp Gauges, indicator lights in the center (no oil pressure gauge).

Looks to have been an add-on at some point earlier in its life. Thus can't know if mileage indicated is real or not and so forth.

What say you, what say you all?

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Hi Rick,
`Clubby shaped' vans (except real early ones with centre binnacle) were all 2 gauge pod ex factory.
Somebody has pinched a 3 gauge one from a Leyland Mini S I'd say. Common mod.
Clubby GT, Mini 998 SS and 998/1275LS got a 3 gauge pod too. All others were 2 gauge.

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Thanks Kevin,

As I suspected...

The install sees the 3 gauge pod sticking out a bit too far (from my uninformed perspective).

Did the 2 and 3 gauge pods use the same mounting? If no, then...

Could the 3 gauge cluster have been mounted on a different base, i.e. the factory mount for the 2 gauge pod or some other?

Rick

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I've converted a few clubmans from two to three gauge (ten years ago!) from memory you just add the additional gauge to the current two therefore you may still have the original speedo! In say that I've never owned a Mini which at some point the speedo hasn't failed and it's taken me six month to getting round to fixing it so you can never trust what the speedo is saying anyway! No mods were required to the mounting it's just a wider bracket.

The mounting brackets uses the same 4 bolt holes in the firewall and the faces sit at the same position but they are different brackets, but only in the top arms and these can be cut off and modded to suit.

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Appreciate the input...I used a Garmin GPS for Speed - in kilometres per hour - driving about Australia (and New Zealand) since Speedo is in Miles etc.

With Garmin mounted low on the windscreen, I had much better view of Speed than looking down to the gauge, then converting etc.

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You can recalibrate the speedometer if it is in accurate, it uses a drag cup and fixed magnet to pull the needle around. There is a screw behind the dial that modifies the clearance between the drag cup and the fixed magnet, closing the gap strengthens the current, and drag. Reverse is true if you slacken the screw. Also after years of use the needle may have slipped, there is a procedure for setting the correct tension on hair spring that loads the needle.

http://home.comcast.net/~rhodes/speedo.pdf