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Thanks Wayne. My buddy Bill has a 52 Mercury he's working on. The odometer works but the speedo doesn't. So it's not the cable. I told him there's a weep hole used for oil occasionally, which never gets oil. I told him I've had I he instrument panels out of my trucks several times. If the speedos were frozen I lubed them up with WD-40 until I could spin it freely.
I'll be looking at his speedo, probably take it out, get it working or replace it with another if I can't.
I'll be looking at his speedo, probably take it out, get it working or replace it with another if I can't.
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I'll see if I can get it working for my friend Bill. He is a great friend and a good mechanic and he has a lift! He is going to help me put in a new E-brake cable so this is something I've done before that he hasn't.
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No, they're both MPH. The Ford speedos then had the 5's inbetween the tens and looked kind of cluttered. The Merc was much cleaner, imho. Being in a floating pod instead of sitting flat in the dash gave it class and kind of "space-aged", too.
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Apparently the Mercs were a little faster.
110 top speed for Merc, Ford was only 100. Lol
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Those extra 16 cubic inches made all the difference. lol
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