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[DMCForum] Re: Angle Drive Cable (Martin)
- From: "Joe OBrien" <joeyoseppijoe@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:42:16 -0000
Did you just start a job recently Bill? You were unemployed per your 
message yesterday.
-Joe
--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> 
wrote:
> That was a failed attempt at humor, written after a long and tiring
> afternoon of my new life as an arborist. I may be mad, but even I
> would buy a proper $50 angle drive from Houston before I moved
> everything to the other side of the car (which of course wouldn't
> resolve the direction of magnet rotation I know, but remember: it 
was
> a failed attempt at humor).
> 
> Your Citroen probably takes off from the left wheel because an
> overwhelming majority of the production went to the continent. 
Doesn't
> make sense to produce a speedometer for the right wheel for British
> consumption alone (a longer cable is much cheaper).
> 
> I can't figure out why DMC didn't take off from the transmission 
like
> 99.9% of the world does. It's a tried & true method, used for 
decades,
> that rarely fails.
> 
> Of course carburetion also is a tried & true method, used for 
decades,
> that rarely fails, so there's no accounting for taste.
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939 
> 
> >--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> 
wrote:
> > He can try. Without replcing the gears, his speedo will spin 
backwards.
> > 
> > Right-hand drive DeLoreans still take the speedo drive off the 
left 
> > wheel, and the longer cable results in "jumping needle" issues.
> > 
> > One of my Citroens takes a speedo drive off the left front 
wheel. 
> > 173,000 miles and counting. Still works, but the needle wobbles 
a bit, 
> > common to all of these cars because the speedo cable is so 
long... 
> > (natively left-hand drive)
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > Marc Levy wrote:
> > 
> > > How will it help to move it over to the right??
> > >
    
  
  
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