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On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:50:19 +0000, Graeme
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I think my Yaeger should have been Jaeger? Then there were Smiths, and
Lucus. Yazaki?

Ah 'Yazaki', I think that's them! (well remembered that man) ;-)

I cheated, and browsed the classic car area of eBay :-)

Ah, and did you fit a 'T' piece to where the
oil pressure switch used to go (and fit that back to the T) then you
had some fine translucent tubing to thread back to the oil pressure
gauge (the type of tube that wanted to stay coiled up!)?

Yes! That reminds me of the tubing used to connect the manifold
pressure gauge to the manifold. Drill the manifold, tap the hole, then
there was a special part to reduce the diameter of the tubing - forget
that, and the gauge flew all over the place.

Yes - I had a matching speedo and rev counter, but how I found a
circular speedo for an Anglia, I cannot remember.

I only ever stuck with the stock speedos, anything else was a bit more
in-depth than my customizing was going to go.

The speedo I used was not calibrated for the car, so it looked good, but
wasn't actually useful :-)

Absolutely. Modern cars seem to have warning lights for every
eventuality, but, as you say, with gauges you can, um, gauge when
something is going wrong, whereas with a warning light, whatever is
going wrong has already gone.

Yep, that's 'progress' I suppose sigh . To be fair though I'm not
sure what percentage of today's driving population would a) look at
the gauges or b) do anything different if they saw something. I
suppose they now rely on the EMU to put the engine in 'limp mode' to
protect itself FROM the driver?

My stepdaughter the other day ... "My car started making a funny
noise but it when away when I went faster .... "

ROFL! Part of my job as a sub postmaster is vaguely overseeing a
delivery office full of posties, and their vans. All strange noises and
flashing lights in the vans are ignored. If the van runs, it is used.
Part of the rational is that, if there is a problem, the postie has to
take the van to the workshop at the main mail centre, which is nearly 50
miles away, whereas, if the van dies completely, the AA will come and
get it ...

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Graeme