I have a 1987 sdl and the odometer stopped working the car has 220000 miles on it so I pulled the cluster and found out that this car has the electric sppedometer well much to my dismay the small gear that moves the numers was stripped its the 48x12 gear so i replaced the gear put it all back together and took it for a ride worked for abou two miles and quit So ipuuled the dash out again only to find that the small gear on the motor and the gear I just replaced were stripped any ideas. Oh h yea I did check and the numbers all move smooth

Make sure its clean,I replaced all 3 gears.carradio.com

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran

Are the plastic gears in the speedometer what determine the ratio it turns at?

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84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012

Yes and you can change them according to your rear end.There are 3 different sets.I would imagne 300se and 300sd the lowest,420sel and 500sel,then 560sel.

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran

I have a 125 mph speedometer in the 230CE that isn't correct and I have another that supposedly would have the correct ratio but it's only an 85 mph speedometer. Would I only need to swap the plastic gear shafts and brass odometer drive gear to make it work correctly?

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84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012