ID my binnacle please?

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ID my binnacle please?

Post by Number 47 » 01 Aug 2014 09:34 pm

I'm pretty sure it is a smiths but the cable I got does not fit the holder in the stub axle. Just want to be sure I'm not missing anything before I go returning it?

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Post by classicswede » 01 Aug 2014 11:02 pm

Smiths

The difference is at the speedo end, the hub end does not change
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Post by macplaxton » 02 Aug 2014 12:29 am

^^^ WHS

The business end will look like this on either version:
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Post by bogbasic » 02 Aug 2014 04:30 pm

I had one that didn't go through the stub-axle. Right pain that were and no one on here believed me. I was ahead of my time.
1988 340 1.4 GL, 218k, 5 door (Grey Bess). Gone to CBA.
1991 340 1.7 GL, 64k, 5 door, petrol blue (Deep Blue).
1988 360 2.0 GLE, 140k, 5 door, ocean blue metallic (Blue Bess).
1989 340 1.7 GL, 108k, 3 door (Red Ness).
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Post by Number 47 » 03 Aug 2014 02:49 pm

Cheers guys, the stub end of mine is just too wide to go into the holder. Time to return it, after 6 months! :lol:

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Post by macplaxton » 03 Aug 2014 03:30 pm

What do you mean by too big? Pic please?
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Post by bogbasic » 03 Aug 2014 05:00 pm

I'm going to wear my psychic cap and guess an answer for the original poster. Now then, now then, how's about this then? I can see that the plastic part of the cable is too thick to push through the hole in the stub axle. I had that problem and tried filing away at the placky then decided to trim it back to the metal inner tube and just push it through the stub able, hold it in place with a cable tie and grease it copiously and keep regreasing it every few months.... and it stayed like that for 120 k miles... Before going to CBA...

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Post by Number 47 » 03 Aug 2014 07:52 pm

Try as I might, this is just too wide to fit in the hole. I think when they tried to make it square they just squashed it flat.

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Post by macplaxton » 03 Aug 2014 08:43 pm

Ta for the pics, clearer now what the issue appears to be - they made a shite job of squaring the end of the cable?

If everything else matches up, I'd have a go at reforming it rather than all the aggro of An Post, etc.
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Post by bogbasic » 03 Aug 2014 08:58 pm

Sorry, I was completely barking up the wrong tree... But I seem to remember something about a difference between the early and late bobbins or am I barking mad again??
1988 340 1.4 GL, 218k, 5 door (Grey Bess). Gone to CBA.
1991 340 1.7 GL, 64k, 5 door, petrol blue (Deep Blue).
1988 360 2.0 GLE, 140k, 5 door, ocean blue metallic (Blue Bess).
1989 340 1.7 GL, 108k, 3 door (Red Ness).
More info here!

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Post by macplaxton » 03 Aug 2014 09:02 pm

bogbasic wrote:But I seem to remember something about a difference between the early and late bobbins or am I barking mad again??
That's at t'other end of the cable.
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Post by Number 47 » 03 Aug 2014 10:51 pm

I'm loath to go trying to square it in the vice. If I get it wrong it is not cheap to replace. I'd rather send it back and get one that will work. Have considered it but it was nearly €60 for the cable with delivery!

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Post by classicswede » 03 Aug 2014 10:57 pm

I would send it back as it is miles off.
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Post by bogbasic » 03 Aug 2014 11:01 pm

Man, that is the bobbin that goes in the grease cap isn't it?? The square bit that it held in the cap by a clip is cunningly hidden in those photos, I think. Anyhow, I can see what you mean that the cable hasn't been squared-off correctly now that my mincers can get a decent eye-full of it all - its been completely Pete Tonged.
1988 340 1.4 GL, 218k, 5 door (Grey Bess). Gone to CBA.
1991 340 1.7 GL, 64k, 5 door, petrol blue (Deep Blue).
1988 360 2.0 GLE, 140k, 5 door, ocean blue metallic (Blue Bess).
1989 340 1.7 GL, 108k, 3 door (Red Ness).
More info here!

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Post by macplaxton » 04 Aug 2014 01:24 am

Number 47 wrote:Have considered it but it was nearly €60 for the cable with delivery!
Mine better be good when it turns up... (perhaps Tues, hol here Mon, so no post :( )
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