I went to a junk yard and found a great donor for the new dash style and I read that for the most part the swap is pretty much bolt on. The one problem I am running into is switching from a mechanical to an electronic speedometer sensor. My donor vehicle was a 4WD, but I still took the sensor because I wasn't sure if it would work.
I later read that it would not. I did go to a dealership and tried to order one, but the 40 dollar estimate that someone posted was a little off, at least in my area. They wanted 175 bucks for the sensor and another 25 bucks for the gear. I really don't know why I even bother checking on the dealership anymore.
Anyway, frustrated because none of my junkyards have late 90s pickups that are 2WD 4 Cyclinders I thought I would at least see what happens if I shove the supposedly wrong sensor in and it fit! Well, as far as I know it fit. When I say it fits, is it goes in easily with no force and I can install the lock bolt. Unfortunately, I have no idea if it really will work unless I do the swap and I really don't want to do that until I get other thoughts. My real questions is an opinion of if this is feasable, or fitting and actually working are two different things, or worse if I were to test this theory would it tear up my transmission?
The one from the 4WD is a 19 tooth sensor and mine is a 17 tooth, which I wasn't too worried about because I have bigger rims now and the 17 tooth sensor was off anyway. I thought since I was switching out the sensor, I would swap in a 19 tooth to see if it puts me closer. Mostly a stab in the dark really. So, another question is this the way you would fine tune the speedometer after up-sizing the rims or is it because the sensors are different all together? The donor vehicle didn't have wheels, so I have no idea what the size was, but I assume with it being 4WD they would have been at least one size bigger.
Anyway, any thoughts or advice would be awesome. I hate that the only thing that is holding me up from this project is a sensor.
