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Old Mar 9, 2006 | 08:49 PM
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speed sensor?

My brother has a 97 150 that has a speed sensor on the transfer case on the bottom of the sensor there is a gear.Does anyone know where i can get a after market gear for it.Hopefully that will help get his speedometer back close to normal he has 35in tires and 4.56 gears.thanks
 
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Old Mar 9, 2006 | 10:21 PM
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arent the speed sensors on those trucks on the diff? im almost sure that they went to the rear speed sensor on the pumkin, instead of the t case.
 
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Old Mar 9, 2006 | 10:23 PM
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no the one on the rear is the ABS
 
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Old Mar 10, 2006 | 08:15 AM
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thats what i thought as well
 
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Old Mar 10, 2006 | 01:20 PM
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but isnt it on the newer truck, there is no speedo cable, just a spinning ring on the ring gear that is detected by a sensor. who knows, maybe im thinking of somthing else.
 
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Old Mar 10, 2006 | 11:52 PM
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All it is is a gear at the end of the sensor that looks alot like a distributer gear and from what ive found out so far is for every 3 mph your truck is off you loose a tooth.Now what i dont know is what speed that its measured at since the faster you go the more its off i just cant seem to find one for 4.56s ive only found them up to 4.10s and thats at steeda.com.
 
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Old Mar 11, 2006 | 12:11 AM
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i thought on the newer trucks it was on the rear axle?
 
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Old Mar 11, 2006 | 11:59 AM
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Just buy a power programmer an calibrate in the gear/tire size and that should fix it on the newer fords......
 
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Old Mar 11, 2006 | 06:19 PM
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Just buy a power programmer an calibrate in the gear/tire size and that should fix it on the newer fords......

well the new gears are $10-$20 vs the programmer 350
 
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Old Mar 11, 2006 | 08:29 PM
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what gear? im almost positive that its all electronic on that truck.
 
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 09:11 AM
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what gear? im almost positive that its all electronic on that truck.

Go to steeda.com and type in speed sesor gear in the search and itll pull up what im talking about.
 
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 01:26 PM
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97 up read the same as my 94 Ford as all 92-96 F150's do witha PSOM. Speedometer is driven off of the rear axle. If I'm wrong...wow. Speedo isn't supposed to have been T-case driven since 92. And I'll be really pissed if they went BACK to T-case setups.
 
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 02:06 PM
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Speedo feed comes off the ABS tone ring in the rear diff as an electronic signal, it's been this way since 1992. The speedometer can be recalibrated by the dealer if it is only a few mph off, I think up to a 35 inch tire -- the gears in the diff don't matter anymore, it is tire size.
 
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 09:09 PM
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You can reprogram the PSOM yourself to accoutn for tire and gear size differences. IF you feel like making the calculations.
 
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 09:12 PM
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94, ive heard that, but how do u do it? any links?
 
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