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Old 05-07-2008, 11:25 AM
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What color is the oem speedo gear. I'm in the middle of rebuilding and I'm just curious. Also, is there a way I can check what gear ratio I have without cracking open the rear diff?
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Anyone know the color?
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The color of the gear depends on your gear ratio. Not all are the same.
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I know that, I was wondering what the oem gear color is?

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The color of the gear depends on your gear ratio. Not all are the same.
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Even OEM the gears arent all the same. Some cars had different gear ratios from the factory.
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ive got 295 gears
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oh wait thats my tranny gear set...let me double check on my r&p gears

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stock on my car were 2.73

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http://www.latemodelrestoration.com/...eedo-gear.aspx
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Default RE: speedo gear/ r&p gears

Now that brings up some questions I have for the former owner because now I'm thinking my car was converted from aod to t5. Anyways, is it true that I can rotate the wheel one rotation and count how may times the driveshaft rotates and that would equate to my rear gears? Is this correct for a rough estimate?

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