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Old 03-15-2012, 02:02 AM
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Default Re: Gramma's Car: the new project!

Finally got the speedometer working accurately. The car originally had a 2.56 rear gear ratio and I guessed and put in a blue 43 tooth driven gear years ago when I did the 3.42 rear swap. That never helped much.

It turned out that the trans had an 18 tooth green drive gear which makes it impossible to get a driven gear with enough teeth to slow down the speedo. They dont make a 49 tooth driven gear. So I ended up getting a 15 tooth grey drive gear and a yellow 41 tooth driven gear and the speedo now reads exactly right.

So with 20 years of the wrong gear, the 79,000 on the odometer is probably 69,000 actual miles. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]
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