M5od r1 tone ring swap

[blue.bomber]

So i bought the m50d r1 with the tone ring just did the tail end housing on it with the speedo gear the thing is it has 3 spots to put it on the actual shaft is it for different gear ratios? or is it all the same mines about 10 km out roughly didn’t know which one just put it on a random spot and sent it. Before I did the Manual swap and just put the 8.8 4.10 was doing the same thing. Another thing the Speedo will not move until reaching 5km then jumps to about 20 maybe the cable is bad or a sticky speedo idk

 

[Curious Hound]

Sounds like your speedometer cable needs to be lubricated. They can dry out and start getting jumpy.

 

[SenorNoob]

Mine lets me know when it needs lube by having the speedo bounce from 7mph to 70 mph at about 5mph actual. Most often when it's stupid cold outside.

 

[blue.bomber]

interesting thanks for the info. That solves one of my problems just leaves one more about placement of the Speedo gear if not I’ll probably buy a reducer or something to get a correct input

 

[blue.bomber]

Also thoughts on running gear oil in the m5od r1? The guy before me was using it didn’t want to put trans oil and mix both oils from whatever didn’t drain out the plug

 

[Curious Hound]

I've seen enough complaints about shifting priobems with gear oil that I won’t do it.

 

[SenorNoob]

Viscosity difference is enough that I doubt you'd be able to shift an M5OD at all below 40F with gear oil in it. Not to mention that it likely wouldn't flow very well into the synchronizers and cause problems shifting that way too.