My last speedo cable lasted about twenty miles, throughout that time the needle wavered a lot. I guess I got the routing wrong, the cable sheared at the speedo head. Should it route through a separate hole in the bullhead, or just with the rest of the wires?

Thanks , Ben

Looking half way down here http://www.keiths-classic-cars.org.uk/c ... -dolly.htm, i can see that there are two cables to the left of the master cylinder. One I guess is choke, and the other is speedo?

Ben,
aren't those are the choke and throttle cables?
On that site you've mentioned, find the picture with the heading 'the wax fest continues', just in front of the battery is the (grey) speedo cable, which goes through the bulkhead near to the n/s heater stub.

edit: also visible in the photograph titled 'and continues'

Once inside the car, it goes along underneath the parcel shelf, then passes through a hole in the underside of the instrument binnacle to arrive at the speedo.

Btw, I think I recall hearing that there were some dodgy speedo cables on offer, on which the 'squared' end of the inner cable was undersized, so that it would spin in the socket on the speedometer head.
Didn't Old-Nail find that the one he'd bought (at best priiice) and which failed in short order had a 'Peugeot' label on the wrapping?

ken.

Out the side of the binnacle along the top of the shelf(under the felt and vynil "trim" - no photos im afraid

down through the parcel shelf


DSC00224 by Sean602, on Flickr

out the bulkhead above the handbrake linkage


DSC00223 by Sean602, on Flickr

to come out by the heater stub


DSC00220 by Sean602, on Flickr

and down to the 'Box

Thanks gents.

Worryingly , the replacement speedo cable I have (best price, natch) does have Peugeot on it. I think the first one failed because I spectacularly failed to route it correctly. Hopefully correctly routed it will work better, thanks sean for the pics they will be very useful.

What I incorrectly noted as the cable, is certainly the throttle, which is why i only have one hole in the bulkhead in that area on my car.

The route citroen chose for the cable does seem unnecessarily complex to me. I drilled a new hole in the bulkhead directly behind the speedo.

Crikey only been here 5 minutes and my D*lly pics are being used for "reference" purposes.

I am humbled