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To: Larry.Wright@mail.wdn.com (Larry Wright)
Subject: Re: teeth
From: Roland Dudley <cobra@cdc.hp.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 97 12:53:17 PDT
> Spook37211@aol.com wrote
> 
> >Does anyone have the list of speedo drive gears by tooth count?
> >Ray
> 
> 
> I found the following in some old notes I kept; reprinted here _without_ the
> author's permission. You don't mind, David, do you?
> 
> >Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 07:59:04 PST From: davew@sandy.merix.com (David 
>Wedeking)
> >Subject: Re: Speedo gear >  Follow-up on the discussion about speedo gears. 
>In 1990 (engine rebuild summer) I went to Ford 
> >for a replacement speedo gear. My original gear was a 15 tooth. It was no 
>longer available. Ford 
> >provided the following part numbers for replacements:
> 
> >     18T     CODD-17271-B
> >     17T     C0DD-17271-A
> >     16T     CODZ-17271-A
> >     15T     (no longer available)
> 
> >I installed a 16T gear. It made my speedometer reading much more reliable. 
>It used to read 80 mph 
> >at 70 mph actual, now it is only a couple of mph high.
> 
> Larry Wright "I can't get no-- Satis-traction"
> 

Also Ford speedo gears come with threads in both pitch configuration; 
i.e., left and right.  Found this out the hard way when I replaced
the speedo grear on my snake.

Roland

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