Thread: Mechanical speedo, possible?
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Old 11-27-2009, 01:27 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by nickdigger View Post
There is a possibility that you might have an electric VSS signal. Some older cars (Mazda RX7, Honda Prelude e.g.) have manual speedo cables, but the speedo itself sends out a digital signal from the instrument cluster to the cruise control. Something to look into, if/when you dive into your schematics.
It's a 96 and fuel injected It almost has to have a vss.

My truck has a cable driven speedo and a vss sensor.

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