Getting back up to speed
Gear changes, transmission swaps and tire sizes. All these changes can cause problems with accurate speedometer readings. These charts should help you narrow down the selection of the proper gear combination to use in the transmission and speedo cable to 'get you legal' again.Here is how this works.
- You need to know your rear end gear ratio. We provide all this information on identing your differential under our 'Index to Years' section.
- You need to measure the the diameter of your tire.
- Formula is: gear ratio X 20.2 (another magic number) and dividing by the tire diameter.
- Look up the resulting number in the chart and see what the closest match is. Use those gear combinations and you should be 'up to speed'!
- Example: 3.55 X 20.2 =71.71 divided by tire diameter 26" = 2.758
After looking this up on the chart (large gears) we see that a 16 tooth tranny gear and a 44 tooth speedo gear will give us an accurate speedometer reading for this combination. - Yes, there is more than one 'correct' answer.
- Enjoy!
Credits:
Large Speedo Gears |