Re: [T3] Speedo Assembly '67ish

["Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 19 Aug 2011 at 19:32, Know One wrote:

> > If it's a grey faced speedo w/trip odo, then it's a '71,
> > which will 
> > have shorter retaining springs. The thing to do to make
> > this work 
> > best for you is to install the '71 guts in an earlier metal
> > housing.
> 
> Easy enough, I already have a ground wire on my housing so I don't have to rely on the springs for grounding.

I can't remember if maybe even the early housings had that pair of 
ground lugs on them. They may have, so that the speedo became the 
ground connection for lots of other things. Everything else got 
ground lugs in '69, but the speedo may have had them all along. 

Anyone else know?


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