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Old 03-07-2016, 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Stokes View Post
I'm confused. Why would the speedo be different when (at least for any other make of car I know) you just change the speedo drive gear in the trans? It doesn't make sense to me to have different speedos to accomplish this calibration.

Dan
nope.

the MB calibrates the speedo to the diff. all transmission drive gears are the same.
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