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Thanks Ray. The thought that the whole cable would slide out rally didn't seem too likely to me at the time. Oh well, you learn things the hard way sometimes.

Goping on Rallye's site, they list two different part numbers for speedometer cables for the 1600 and 2000. I wonder what the difference is? Since I have a car that was originally a 2000, I wonder if there would be a difference on the speedometer end. They also have two different part numbers for the 2000 and 1600 speedometer.

Thanks again,
Steve

Steve:
In the general discussion forum there is the info on the speedometer cables around the September timeframe.

My 1600 speedometer is the zero mph type at this time because the car is sleeping for the winter. Brrrrrrrr its cold out today

Ray B.

Before you drop big money at Ralleye, just take the remaing casing to a speedo shop and they can make you a new cable very reasonbly.

Alexi

Thanks Alexi for the idea. Speedo shop though. I'm not sure Ive ever seen one of those. I put my location into my profile as an explanation. Kind of out in the sticks, relatively speaking.

Rallye has a couple of used cables listed on their site for $16. New was in the 50's I believe.

Ray, thanks for the reference. Some good information there on the interchangeability. Speaking of cold, I used to work with a guy who had been stationed at Minot AFB in North Dakota. He used to talk about dealing with the winters up there. When talking to him it was easy to underappreciate that there's a whole other country north of there.

Steve:
Since you're in the sticks.....If you want to build your own cable, you can get one of the repair kits from one of the distributors of the site listed below.
Enter vehicle info for 1970 nissan and choose the 2000, and use "speedometer" as part category and that should give a link to speedometer parts. There is a couple of do-it-yourself crimping cable kits available.
Get the kit length you need and crimp the fitting to the length you require.
http://www.rbinc.com

Another tip:
If you have the early style of lower ball jonts with the 'A" type of dust boots and metal cup, they also carry an excellent univeral dust boot ("Motomite"#13564 ) which fits great after trimming the excess material back about 1/4".
I've used them in the past and have a set installed now and they work just as good as oem. Water doesnt get past them, grease stays in and they keep out the dust great.
Havent found ones for the old style uppers yet.

Ray B.