Speedometer Interchangeability ??
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Speedometer Interchangeability ??
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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..
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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..
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