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Old 02-23-2010, 10:00 AM
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Default Counterclockwise speedometer
My car came with a 160 mph Smiths clockwise speedometer and apparently they are not making a 180 clockwise speedometer currently (or for some time). It's not what I initially wanted, but for authentic appearance I'm mulling over going to the 180 counterclockwise Smith speedometer and adaptor. But, I'm hearing they are nothing but trouble and a headache. Seems the problems are a combination of sometimes in the 90 deg reversing adaptor and sometimes in the speedometer itself.

Anyone come up with a fix for this or developed an understanding of what the problem(s) are the result of? I have a 66 Corvette with a 90 deg angle drive on my tach drive cable and have never had any problems with it - but it mounts right at the distributor instead of at the tach.

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Dan
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