Gary,
I have been down the same path with a TR4 this winter... rebuild engine and
gearbox and restore dash.
I reset my speedometer for the same reasons stated. The reading on the
speedo was not reliable and did represent the true state of anything and I
wanted to start fresh with my new rebuild.
You reset the odometer by just clicking the wheels back to zero with a
pointed pick. You should be able to see the ratchet spring on each wheel
that make it go in one direction only and just push the wheel around in the
right direction.
Brian Sanborn
62 TR4 CT16260L - Groton, MA
sanborn@net1plus.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Klein <gklein@toad.net>
To: TR Newsgroup <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, March 26, 1999 9:27 PM
Subject: Odometer Resetting - An Ethical Question??
>
>Fellow Scions,
>
>I've been working at restoring my '75 TR6 for a little over 2 years now
>and it's been a long haul but the light at the end of the tunnel is
>starting to get a bit brighter, day by day. As the dash and gauges will
>be going back together in the near future, I've been pondering the
>question of what to do, if any, about the odometer?
>
>I will have completely rebuilt just about everything when I'm done
>(engine, tranny, clutch, body, paint, interior, etc, etc,) and I intend
>on keeping and using this car for quite some time, 5-10 years at least.
>The speedometer read 16K and a few miles when I bought it (I assumed
>116K+) and I put a few miles on it before I tore it down. Upon
>disassembly of the speedometer to clean the face (BTW the Endust trick
>works great) I noticed a handwritten date and what appears to be a
>mileage statement written in pencil on the inside of the back cover.
>The date was long after 1975, '87 if I recall, and the mileage was
>somewhere in the 80K range. Needless to say, I don't know how many
>miles were on this car before I got it and perhaps the speedometer is
>not the original either.
>
>So here's my question for which I'd like to get your collective
>reactions and thoughts: As it's now about to be reborn, any thoughts
>about resetting the odometer back to all zero's? If it can be done, how
>does one do it? (it wasn't obvious to me when I took it apart and I
>guess I don't have a criminal mind)
>
>I'm not interested in any legal aspects here, just the ethics. I'll
>post a summary when all the correspondence is done.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary
>Digest
>'75 TR6 Undergoing Remanufacture
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