BearKiller

This is sort of three questions all in one.

Are the cable-driven speedometers plagued with the failing odometer gears, like the electric-drive ones are??

Can I remove the electric speedometer drive at the transfer-case (or transmission of a 2wd), and replace it with the cable drive??

Can I swap a cable-drive speedometer into a truck that has an electric-drive??

Has anyone done this??

Thanks.

wannadiesel

That was four.

Don't know.

Yes.

Yes.

Probably going to need a different speedo pinion in the trans to make it read right.

Don't know.

RumbleFish

The answers to #1 and #4 are No and Yes, in that order. I just read about a cable conversion a couple weeks ago, but I can't find it now. He drilled a hole in the back of the stock cluster and ran the cable through that.

BearKiller

Okay, do I get this right??

The cable-driven odometers ARE NOT susceptible to the same gear failures as the electric-drive ones.

I have found an instrument cluster, with cable-drive speedometer.

Now, all I need is the cable.

BHD

Answer to ? #1 I don't know but I have owned A LOT of older Dodges with the cable driven odometer and every one of them worked fine.

BRUISER

I did this switch, due to me spending many many hrs on the electrical one and never getting it to work..
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Well I guess I should have done a write up on how I fixed mine.. OOPS sorry

Here is a quick version of what I did..

I went and bought a stock Speedo gauge cluster from a 89 dodge (mechanical odometer)

Then I took out my 92 cluster (electrical)

I then took the plastic covers of each cluster to see what the difference was between them.. what I found was they are very close, but the mechanical one has a large hole in back for cable to come in threw.

So I took out electrical odometer out of my '92 cluster drilled out a large hole where cable needed to go, and put in mechanical odometer..

the reason i did not just switch entire lucster is becasue there are other things that use elctrical that worked on my 92 cluster so I did not want to loose them..

after switch odometers I bolted it all back together and ran the mechanical cable threw back of dash and along frame rail and connected it into transfer case.. ( it bolts right up to exsiting connector ).

Now I have a odometer that works great, and being that is is mechanical I do not have to worry about some stupid electrical wire faling off.

really was not that hard..

BearKiller

That is exactly what I wanted to hear.

Thanks.