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WTB '47 Ford Metric Speedometer
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supereal |
12-03-2010 @ 8:09 AM
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One mile equals about .62 kilometers. Thus ten miles equals just over 16 Km. Divide the miles on the odometer by ,62 and you get the Km covered. If you look at the face of speedometers on today's cars, you see that there is one dial inside the other, one for mph, the other for kpm. Some have a switch for the now common electronic speedos to convert the odometer reading, but I haven't seen any gear sets for old Ford speedometers that will convert the odometer to metric.
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FRITZ47 |
06-21-2011 @ 5:13 AM
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I had the exact same experience as described by Stroker - quickly receiving two different replies from London (same street), asking for my cell phone number. At first I was going to reply, but after reading Stroker's post, did not do so. Still looking. Fred
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ford38v8 |
06-21-2011 @ 5:24 PM
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Fred, Try posting on the United Kingdom RG 127 website. http://www.earlyfordv8.co.uk/v8mart.html If no response, give Chris Sanders a call. He's the President, and a very agreeable fellow. (Get the time zone right!) Chris may have a lead for you.
Alan
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supereal |
06-21-2011 @ 5:34 PM
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I'm not sure how important the odometer is. No modern cars that I know of adjust the difference unless they have a switch to do the change. If you rely on the odometer to schedule service, those intervals are given in Ford literature in miles, anyway. If you look at the speedometer of most cars, the kilo scale is inside the mph. If there is a special gearing for metric speedos, it would be interesting to know of it. So far, I haven't seen one. Electronic speedos address the difference, but don't change sensors.
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