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Topic: speedometer cable parts

Posted By: HudCo
Subject: speedometer cable parts
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2024 at 7:17pm

anyone know were to get the short piece of speedometer cable that goes between the gearbox and drivegear about 1 1/4 long round with tang on one end and square on the other i need one for a automatic to manual swap on a 79 chev that we are doing . anyone even deal in speedo cable stuff any more i used to buy this stuff from a local heavey truck shop they had assortment to build new cables or change gears in the little gear box if you changed rear end ratios , but times are changeing mechanical any thing is about gone

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Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2024 at 10:15pm

Look up repair shop for automotive instruments .
Still some around that do mechanical driven items though most are now electronic .
Can try under Smith Instrument repair services as Smith made instruments for many British manufactures and Motorcycle mfg.

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Posted By: only AC orange
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2024 at 8:51am

Check with Haim Zeevie in southern Fl., he has Star Speedometer repair.

Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2024 at 10:42pm

i will check a few of these places cuase someone in china is making tach cables for your vintage tractors

Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2024 at 9:01pm

Amazon has the gears, with reference to a GM P/N.

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Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2024 at 10:10pm

NAPA has a universal speedo cable that has always worked for me. I've got one in a tach drive on an 8n ford as we speak. Has an assortment of diff ends that crimp on after ya cut it to length.

Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2024 at 6:09pm

walker what is your part number? so i can keep it for a refrence? i had my customer look for that little piece and he bought two of them for 25.00 aech from summit racing

Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2024 at 11:33pm

HudCo wrote:

walker what is your part number? so i can keep it for a refrence? i had my customer look for that little piece and he bought two of them for 25.00 aech from summit racing

Just now found your reply, sorry about delay. I never used the part number, always just walked in and told em universal speedo cable. I've used them in anything oddball and they've never failed me. Got both speedo and tach cable in my old Triumph mc now too and they've both been in there since the 70's. Last one I bought probably ten years ago cost around 5$ but in the era of Biden you might want to triple that.

Posted By: Allis dave
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2024 at 6:36am

Star Speedometer has the right stuff and will make the right cable to the length you say