buttdometer may work to replace a SPEEDometer, but I'd like to know how you're recording how far you drive with your butt??

 

If lack of an odometer was a problem, there's lots of Mercedes in trouble. I don't think I have ever seen a W126 with a still-working odo. The rubber gears strip at about 150-250k.

 

That's easy, the sorer your butt is, the further you have gone.

Furthermore, when your butt is walking to the fuel station you've exceeded the mileage of your tank capacity.

 

Exactly, if you get out and your butt ain't numb then you haven't gone fifty miles, just guesstimate from there, if you get out and you can't walk sounds like a road trip to me

 

Those sound to me like time to get a new seat for your truck!

 

Butt then your buttdometer gets reset :/
Speaking of I could use a new seat, my passenger side sits higher than the driver side and of the driver side the seat leans back more than I want

 

that is an easy fix. just put the passenger seat on the driver side!!!

 

If you have a bench just turn it around!

 

Convert to right hand drive...

 

Jumping jiggawatts that's the brightest idea I've ever heard! Will be making right hand drive thread soon!

 

I'd follow that.

 

Thanks. I try to make myself useful...

 

Don't bother. I met a Canadian in Whitehorse that had a diesel right-hand drive minivan from Australia or Japan or something. He said it was a huge pain (and potentially lethal activity), because he couldn't do the simplest things. He even tried to install a camera on the left side with the monitor in the cab, just so that he could safely peek out to pass on a two-lane road.

I'll try to return to the topic.... I did some research. I found two mid-80's econolines in my local Socal junkyard. I ripped apart the left side of the dash, and the first looked pretty simple. It was a bare-bones E150. Things looked promising. The second one was more like an XLT like mine. That was suffuse with ductwork and wiring everywhere. The amount of work to revise all that stuff and still have room to make adjustments is just too great.

I've scaled back my plan to just modify the stock instrument cluster. And, I want to write some software that will read my digital senders to a controller that can input various resistance, capacitance, and other values. Then write an application that runs on a "key-on" screen mounted replacing my old stock cluster, displaying the values on personalized virtual gauges. Then I'd have limitless expansion capabilities.

 

PA the ODO needs to work for SI, but that varies by state I guess. Mileage doesnt matter but you need a way to record miles here