I saw somewhere here a few days ago a URL for a company that makes
electronic speedometer adapters. Can someone point me in the right
direction?

"carl mciver" wrote in message
k.net...
I saw somewhere here a few days ago a URL for a company that makes
electronic speedometer adapters. Can someone point me in the right
direction?


A short anecdote: I have a mid-90's Dodge Neon as my mud car. The speedo
failed, and the ECS uses the speedo output as the vehicle speed sensor... so
everything started screwing up.

To replace the $6.00 plastic gear on the transmission output costs over
$1200.00 -- pull the engine and tranny, and split the case.

So I epoxied/fiber wrapped nine magnets around my left front wheel hub, then
got an NPN-o.c. Hall-Effect pickup from Allegro and mounted it on a small
custom bracket over the hub.

Perfect speedometer, and now it's repairable!

LLoyd

Good move, Lloyd! A friend had a plastic gear go out behind the speedo
panel. He calls up one day and asked if he could drop it off so I could
make a new one out of metal for him. Yeah, right! I referred him to Boston
Gear.

Bob Swinney
"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" wrote in message
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"carl mciver" wrote in message
k.net...
I saw somewhere here a few days ago a URL for a company that makes
electronic speedometer adapters. Can someone point me in the right
direction?


A short anecdote: I have a mid-90's Dodge Neon as my mud car. The speedo
failed, and the ECS uses the speedo output as the vehicle speed sensor...
so everything started screwing up.

To replace the $6.00 plastic gear on the transmission output costs over
$1200.00 -- pull the engine and tranny, and split the case.

So I epoxied/fiber wrapped nine magnets around my left front wheel hub,
then got an NPN-o.c. Hall-Effect pickup from Allegro and mounted it on a
small custom bracket over the hub.

Perfect speedometer, and now it's repairable!

LLoyd

good recovery, but you've now revealed another flaw in Detroit's "disposable
car" concept - sometimes a creative person can fix it rather than junk it.



"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" wrote in message
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"carl mciver" wrote in message
k.net...
I saw somewhere here a few days ago a URL for a company that makes
electronic speedometer adapters. Can someone point me in the right
direction?


A short anecdote: I have a mid-90's Dodge Neon as my mud car. The speedo
failed, and the ECS uses the speedo output as the vehicle speed sensor...
so everything started screwing up.

To replace the $6.00 plastic gear on the transmission output costs over
$1200.00 -- pull the engine and tranny, and split the case.

So I epoxied/fiber wrapped nine magnets around my left front wheel hub,
then got an NPN-o.c. Hall-Effect pickup from Allegro and mounted it on a
small custom bracket over the hub.

Perfect speedometer, and now it's repairable!

LLoyd