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    Posted: 05-August-2019 at 1:08PM
OK guys, I want to reset my odometer to 99,000 miles which will give me a thousand miles to get the bugs worked out of the car before it becomes "NEW" again. LOL

My speedometer is a calibrated police speedometer and it looks different from the standard Ford speedos I watched being reset on youtube.

Anyone rest a cop unit before? I've got too much inve$ted in this thing to jack it up!!








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OK, guess no one has reset their own police speedo odometer. Any suggestions on a repair facility that could do it? Really don't want to spend hours with it attached to my drill doing it by hand...... Wacko

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Not that I've done this before but it I recall correctly you can take a small punch chisel and tap that rod out of 1 side lift it up slightly and your numbers should spin freely 
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IIRC what i did was bend the tab that holds the shaft that the numbered drums ride on open slightly to allow the shaft to lift out, reorder the drums to show the number you want, relocate the shaft back into the retainer and bend the tab back to retain.

or it appears you could remove the pin that the red star wheel things are on and do the same. my worry would be that the smaller pin might not retain tightly after being R&R'd, that's why i went with the more robust tab method.

either way, mind the positioning of the tripper pins on the red star wheel things Wink

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Originally posted by TV 2M8O TV 2M8O wrote:

OK, guess no one has reset their own police speedo odometer. Any suggestions on a repair facility that could do it? Really don't want to spend hours with it attached to my drill doing it by hand...... Wacko
  I had planned to use these guys in Greenville, South Carolina, but never did.  Here's a link:  http://dandmrestoration.com/speedometer-repair/
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tap the pin out like they said but getting the red cogs lined up is a trick, not bad just tricky to get them all meshed, i did it to my sport speedo Wink
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Could you use a strip of tape to keep all the red cogs together or at least mark each one with a dot of a Sharpie?
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i think their orientation depends upon the number being shown out the window.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote TV 2M8O Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15-July-2020 at 3:45AM
Contacted D&M Restorations as Paul suggested above... $225 to rebuild the head, calibrate and reset the odometer 2-3 week turnaround. A bit too steep for what I want done!

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don’t know about out there, but here’s it’s against the law to change mileage on an odometer.

Yeah, I know— that illegal, but it’s perfectly fine to put a different one in with different mileage.... lol 

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Car is being completely restored and I'm not resetting the Cop speedo odometer to 00,000.0, I'll have it set to 99,000.0.

That way, I have 1,000 miles to get her debugged before she'll be "new" again! Wink Plus, there's a spot on Ohio titles that states the mileage shown on odometer is NOT the actual mileage, so that takes care of that legality.

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