BLUEMEANIE

I bought grommets for my speedo housing at an electronics surplus/salvage store near me in Winter Park. (Greatest place in the world to find obscure parts and stuff that you didn't know you needed!) I'm sure that I bought extra, but the parts bin is MIA in my shop.

> Grommets and speedo housing
> Grommets closeup

Looks like the grommets isolate the speedo head from vibration. A rubber washer without the rubber part that goes inside the hole in the housing would not keep the bolt shaft from vibratiing against the housing and head.

Don't lose the metal insert while you are looking for a grommet. I lost one. Luckily, I had a couple of extra ones. Anybody know of a substitute for the insert?

By the way, my '54 speedo and gauge housings were painted turquoise with green stripes. The inside of the inner bezels were painted turquoise and flat black. Don't know about earlier housings.

> Photobucket gauge album. There are two sets of housings in the album. One is original inside. The other was painted silver by a previous owner. The back of the speedo was turquoise and cream.

- Lonnie
My '54 3104
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