Speedo pinion adapter replacement help

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Blue wrote: Sun Jul 25, 21 12:20 pm I just have a generic in/lb torque wrench, anything that goes from 50 to 150 inch/lb is sufficient. Unless the filter looks really bad leave it for now.
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May have had an absolute supertwat moment. Just mopped up and pulled those two bolts and realised they are different lengths. Crossing everything that the longer one will be what I need in the back ‘ole (so to speak!)

Should there be anything else other that the spacers between the bracket and the pan?
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Nope. That didn’t work. All torqued up except the same offending bugger, so back to waiting for a longer bolt and nut.

Wondering if a simple spring washer may end my woes. :-k :-k
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Those spacers look a bit thick, they only need to space the bracket off the lip of the steel pan, a couple of flat washers on each bolt would probably suffice. You don't need them at all with a cast pan.
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Blue wrote: Sun Jul 25, 21 4:00 pm Those spacers look a bit thick, they only need to space the bracket off the lip of the steel pan, a couple of flat washers on each bolt would probably suffice. You don't need them at all with a cast pan.
That might just give me the little extra that I need. They are what came with the shifter kit, so that’s what I used.

Maybe, just maybe I will get some luck for once then. I’ll dig through the washer draw. [-o<
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Bored waiting for rtv to dry enough to refit the pan and mopping up another pool of the dreaded red stuff and I’ve just noticed...

The Bananarama! Speedo pinion housing is leaking again. :roll: :lol:

FFS... wish I’d just left it all leaking a bit and done it after the Nats.
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Right, progress made but also a balls up.

Just come back from a drive, fluid has stayed where it’s meant to be at the moment, finally managed to get a long bolt to seat and got a nut thread locked on the other side. Temporary bodge done, new pan and associated stuff on the way for next week.

Happy for 5 minutes until I realised the Speedo isn’t working. :roll:

Today’s questions with only 24 hours fixing time to go, including having to work...

1. What could be the cause, I’m sure I put it all back the same as it came out.
2. Is there anything that could have fallen off the pinion/ adapter that could be crashing round my trans and doing damage?
3. I can use my phone / sat nav as Speedo, so before I pull it again and have to take out shares in Morris Oils for the amount of ATF I’ve been through in the last week, I have a new seal kit for that too coming from America next week, as I think the o ring I was given may have been metric and slightly out, should I pull it and risk more problems or is it not worth it and just get it to the Nats as is? (The question being, can I break anything else driving it as is?)

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One of 2 things has happened. Either the housing hasn’t been turned to the correct position for the drive to engage (Likely) or the inner cable has not engaged into the drive or has fallen out of the Speedo when the cable was removed. Leave it be and sort it at your leisure.
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Ok, so unlikely to be anything damaging?

I turned the housing to what it said was the correct position for the number of teeth, so hoping not that.

So a chance it’s fallen out of the dash end you mean?
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If time is of the essence, and it does not leak too much then use a Satnav as your Speedo and carry some ATF to top up en-route.....
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Pete wrote: Wed Jul 28, 21 8:59 pm If time is of the essence, and it does not leak too much then use a Satnav as your Speedo and carry some ATF to top up en-route.....
Will definitely be carrying atf just in case, but doesn’t seem to be much more than dripping periodically at the moment. Was more worried if it was possible to damage anything without fixing it.

I’m working on the heroic assumption that I don’t check in the morning and find it’s dropped another 6 quarts on the floor. :roll: :D
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Blue wrote: Wed Jul 28, 21 8:25 pm Leave it be and sort it at your leisure.
Only just saw that bit of the post.

That’s exactly the answer I was looking for. :D :thumbright:

If it can’t do any damage, I don’t need to risk doing any more myself right now. #-o
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