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paulyling 02-07-2017 05:36 PM


Originally Posted by afterburner1 (Post 1615906)
1. You have a bad ground in the instrument panel Or the speedometer is not making good contact at the plug. Tapping the instrument panel is the prime clue! Doug is right on target.

@. illuminating the warning lights works best the farther you get the bulb into the receptacle. I tried T10 LED's and fasten them to the outside of the entry point of the bulb opening. Good, but not a winner. I use T-5's and took them out of the wedge fitting and then soldered the led wire to the Jaguar bulb contacts. The T-5 lighting head slips into the hole and goes in about 3/4 of an inch. With this setup you get light from the original bulb and the LED. Also, there is no modification to the panel and it looks original., except you can now see the warning lights!

afterburner1 sorry bud but I am not sure which post you were referring to.

The speedo is now working. I am confident it was the speedo transducer however when I installed it the first time I used some cheap crimps and didn't make a proper connection where I had to splice in the line. I since soldered them and applied heat shrink and she works well.


I meant to mention before, the stick end (as against the lollipop end) of the nylon gear has a square hole in it into which the transducer metal drive fits, quite often this gets rounded so it will not drive the transducer. If you still have the old one, take a look
Greg. Good thought. I did check this out actually. I had the old nylon gear and inserted the speedo transducer however spinning the "lollipop" spins the shaft on the transducer so that appears to be ok.

Problem resolved thankfully. I still have to check accuracy but it is close.


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