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Old 03-09-2016, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by w123fanman View Post
Is there a way to swap over the drive gears in the speedometer itself to another one? My brother is wanting to go to the 2.88 in his W116 300SD but there isn't much info on calibrating the speedo on the W116.
how similar is the 116 speedo to the 123? could you use the 123 speedo in your cluster?

swapping the gears would only fix the odometer... the speedo is a slip effect design, so you'd need the entire mechanism...
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