Mini has been running sweet, everything basically working perfectly for a couple of years now. Today I fitted brand new set of wheels and tyres, all good. Went out for a drive and first thing I notice is the speedo flickering and then finally stopping altogether. So decided to chuck a uie and head back home and noticed that the right hand indicator wasn’t working! Good grief, i only changed the wheels! Why does this always happen to me - I fix or do one thing and then something totally unrelated goes wrong. Why? Sorry, just a bit frustrated.

Anyway, indicator turned out just to be a bulb, but the speedo has got me stumped. It’s a new speedo that I fitted a year ago, but checked that it’s working by spinning the cable out of the gearbox, and it worked. The cable isn’t broken at the gearbox end and looks fine. When I feed it back down into the gearbox it doesn’t turn so thinking that it’s mating ok there too. So I have no idea. After reading Dtrain’s recent post I’ll try to check the drive from the gearbox somehow.

These new 200kmh S speedos seem problematic.
1. I had a new one read 10kmh slow after 20,000km, then 6000km later the thread broke off on back. They are a very thin casting.
2a. My son bought a new one from UK 2 years ago, when fitted to the just restored car this year the cable wouldn't screw on. New cable or old. Thread was 5 thou oversized. I luckily had a new M12x1.0 die so recut it.
2b. When we got the car running, speedo looks fine, odometer is accurate, but speed indicates 10-20kmh slow. Doesn't wave about, just reads wrong.
He's now using his iPhone for speed.

You used to get what you paid for, now the price is silly and quality seems to be getting worse, not better.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

The problem Clip is having can fall into 3 categories
1. Murphy's law that states if something can go wrong it will and at the worst possible moment.
2. Your little darling Mini is letting you know who is the boss.
3. The IIABDFI Rule. If it aint broke , don't fix it.

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Cheers Dave.

I think number 2 is right on the money Steam

Yes, I absolutely agree. I always try to push my meagre finances to pay the extra under the assumption that I will get the quality product, but seems more and more this just isn’t the case these days. Might as well just buy the cheap s#$t
But, in this case I don’t think it’s the speedo, because the needle does jump when I spin the cable by hand.

Problem solved. I was about to remove the gear assembly on the gearbox end today but really wanted to check somehow that it was the problem. So to see if the cable was actually spinning, I stuck my GoPro under the bonnet and taped up the speedo cable end in front of it and went for a drive:
https://youtu.be/FTpcOrfxVxg
So it was spinning away fine - so glad I didn't jump in and start removing the other end. Turned out it was at the speedo end. For some reason the cable must not have been quite long enough and did round off a lot at the end going into the speedo (even though it has been running fine for over a year). So just moved the plastic collar down a couple of mm, reinserted it and all good.