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Originally Posted by mickmate
Yep you're missing something. The cable has a spiral to it. If you hold a spiral at one end and twist it one way it tries to open or unravel. If you reverse the twist it tries to get smaller but in the case of a speedo cable it just bottoms on itself and doesn't get any smaller. The manufacturers recommend using the reverser at the speedo end but doing what you did reverses the cable rotation direction.
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What do you take me for Nick?
That bit I'm fully aware of.
The point I was making is that depending on which end of the cable the "reverser" is located will dictate whether you need a standard or reverse wound cable. If the reverser is on the gearbox, then the cable will spin in reverse rotation, as was the case with my Contemporary. If, on the other hand, the reverser is at the speedo end of the cable, the cable will spin in the conventional direction and a standard wound cable will be required.
Paul