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    No speedo

    Dear Panthers,

    Just took a couple hundred mile trip with no speedometer. This last engine swap confused my New Vintage Woodward electric and I haven't been ble to reset it. Probably need to return it to the factory for computer reset which I hate because it carries my oil pressure and temp gauges . Anyway: all sorts of driving mostly secondary roads, brief Interstate. No prob. The car runs fifty f-ve or thereabouts a matchstick below 2000 on the tach (checked with iphone GPS) amd a matchstick above for 70. Set cruise. Works.


    Donald
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    #2
    Since the cruise works that means the factory speed sensor on the transmission is working as it should. The speed sensor that drives the NV gauge is piggy-backed off the factory sensor via a short drive cable. Have the mechanic who fixed the engine crawl under there and take a look at it, when that engine went in the first time around jacking the transmission up to make it line up with the engine was enough to make the NV speed sensor drive cable partially unplug itself from the factory sensor on the transmission's tail - could be the same thing happened again? Worth a shot certainly.
    The ones who accomplish true greatness, are the foolish who keep pressing onward.
    The ones who accomplish nothing, are the wise who know when to quit.

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      #3
      Its a VSS driven speedo and not one with an internal GPS? Apparently thats the latest thing, which I personally find to be way cool. No more pissing about with speedometer gears to make it accurate.
      86 Lincoln Town Car (Galactica).
      5.0 HO, CompCams XE258,Scorpion 1.72 roller rockers, 3.55 K code rear, tow package, BHPerformance ported E7 heads, Tmoss Explorer intake, 65mm throttle body, Hedman 1 5/8" headers, 2.5" dual exhaust, ASP underdrive pulley

      91 Lincoln Mark VII LSC grandpa spec white and cranberry

      1984 Lincoln Continental TurboDiesel - rolls coal

      Originally posted by phayzer5
      I drive a Lincoln. I can't be bothered to shift like the peasants and rabble rousers

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        #4
        No GPS, it has its own hall effect VSS unit. The GPS ones sound like a great idea, till you drive thru some place like Chicago - overpasses, underpasses, skyscrapers, all sorts of shit that obstructs good view of the birds up beyond the skies.
        The ones who accomplish true greatness, are the foolish who keep pressing onward.
        The ones who accomplish nothing, are the wise who know when to quit.

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          #5
          You can't go fast enough there to worry about needing a speedometer. I've driven in Chicago before. it sucks.
          86 Lincoln Town Car (Galactica).
          5.0 HO, CompCams XE258,Scorpion 1.72 roller rockers, 3.55 K code rear, tow package, BHPerformance ported E7 heads, Tmoss Explorer intake, 65mm throttle body, Hedman 1 5/8" headers, 2.5" dual exhaust, ASP underdrive pulley

          91 Lincoln Mark VII LSC grandpa spec white and cranberry

          1984 Lincoln Continental TurboDiesel - rolls coal

          Originally posted by phayzer5
          I drive a Lincoln. I can't be bothered to shift like the peasants and rabble rousers

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