Timing problem

Even the used speedometer cable I just got from eBay has a cracked plastic white housing that is compressed on the cable.

The cheaper ones use a band to connect the white housing.

I'm wondering if I can compress the newer plastic one or just zip tie the broken one. It seems like I did a repair like this years ago. I would drill a very tiny hole in the white housing to stop the crack from getting worse and spreading. A trick I've used in anything cracked to stop the crack dead in its tracks as they only spread and get worse over time.

I don't remember exactly. I'm going to look closer at it today. What can I expect for a 50 year old cable. Wasn't dropping $80 on a cable. I'd rather get a distributor that's electric or something else for right now. If this doesn't work I will just do that but I think I can repair it or change out the white piece. I want to say I ran into this before
Glue
Compression
Banded
Sleeve Bushing
Ideal clamp even.......not like I'm ever going to see it and it would last.


There is an 80" on my car now and I'm not impressed with its function and accuracy.

I also might have the wrong gear in there to drive it. I'm going to look at that as well.

I also didn't know that the gear housing goes in a certain way according to the gear that sits in it.

It probably clocked wrong.




I have a new
gas tank
Sending unit
Seals.

All going in today.

I recommend painting a new gas tank in places with a good silver paint.


The galvanization on these isn't all that good and it rusted some on the outside of the new one I got 7 years ago. I'll post pictures of it where mine rusted. Spray painting it would be fine just to give it that extra protection. Mine rusted on the top part of the seam

I put acetone in there and going to check it today. I think dawn and water might work. Determined to clean out that old gas to a new finish as it was using no abrasives and no acidic products to eat the finish. Lots of information in the net and opinions but few pictures.

And the sending unit. These units are not completely stainlessas they are advertised. They just look like it. Mine rusted due to what I can only think of as acidic gas breaking down. It ate the brass float down to nothing and the old gas that dried out on the sending unit. Ate through the nickel plating and rusted it. Moisture and water in gas would have just made this old into worse over time.

A new unit was in order even though the old one was never really used but once or twice. I found shopping around helped a lot. The sending unit was $38
The gas tank was $69
The filler neck seal was $14

I want this car to be daily drivable and fully functional.

When the fuel system is done I'll go back to getting it runnin.

I'm wondering if that dead spot off idle is a big vacuum leak. Allowing air to come in unmixed and running it lean.