Six digit (million mile) speedo?

[94xlt4.0]

my 94 w/ 4.0 manual extra cab has the 6 digit + .1. 191,000 right now

 

[koda6966]

What's really frustrating is that I would love to use the new 6+1 because I like it showing actual mileage. Unfortunately, it's a full 100k miles short of my current mileage and I'm not about to spin it with a drill long enough to make up for that.

Slap some tape on the trigger and walk away.

 

[Danger-Ranger96]

My 96 had 6 digits!, it had exactly 280,044 km on it when i sold it lol

 

[RobbieD]

This isn't a definitive answer, but here's what the Ford shop manuals have to say on it.

The 1993 manual states "A million mile tamper-resistant odometer is standard on all New York State vehicles. Also, all service speedometer head assemblies have a non-resettable million mile odometer."

The 1994 manual states: "A million mile tamper-resistant odometer is standard on all vehicles. Also, all service speedometer head assemblies have a non-resettable million mile odometer."

So apparently for the U.S. market, New York required the 6+1 odometer first, which was then standardized the next year on all vehicles. I guess this was a running change during the '94 model year, since some '94s are found with the 5+1 digit odo. Ford may have been using up remaining stocks of the old cluster in production, since the service heads were already 6+1 digit.

I don't know about this, but it would seem that Canadian-market trucks, with kilometer-per-hour speedometers, would likely have been 6+1 digit odometers all along. Can any Canadian members shed any light on this?

My '94 2.3 SC has the 6+1 digit odometer.

 

[88rangerboy]

I wish my '88 had a 6+1 odometer. I'd like to know just how many miles had been put on it.

 

[koda6966]

I live in NY and my trucks a 5+1. Must have came from a different state, New Jersey probably. The PO before the woman I bought it from lived in NYC.

 

[fastpakr]

Slap some tape on the trigger and walk away.

I don't think you understand how long that would take. The drill I grabbed to try it today would only spin it up to about 40mph. At that rate, it would take almost three and a half months of continuous operation. Pretty sure my drill wouldn't survive that long.

 

[4x4junkie]

It was a mid-year change.

My '94 has 6+1 digits (build date 4-'94)

 

[graff104]

I don't think you understand how long that would take. The drill I grabbed to try it today would only spin it up to about 40mph. At that rate, it would take almost three and a half months of continuous operation. Pretty sure my drill wouldn't survive that long.

What about finding one from a JY that has closer to your millage?

 

[fastpakr]

It's certainly an option, but of all the truck related things I could spend my time and money on, that one just isn't a big deal to me. I may rig up a way to keep it running on a drill long enough to get it precisely 100k off of mine as that's well within reason, but that would be it.

 

[koda6966]

Well now, that's a long time.

 

[pocket-rocket]

Mine has the 5+1/10ths. 94 with a build date of 11/93.

I bet a Dremel would turn a few more rpms then your drill

 

[fastpakr]

That's an interesting point. I'd be a little concerned about burning up something inside the speedo though. Might give it a quick test later. Thanks for the idea.

 

[mjonesjr]

I think it was hit and miss on them up to late '94 when they all came with the 6th digit.

 

[lil red]

I don't think you understand how long that would take. The drill I grabbed to try it today would only spin it up to about 40mph. At that rate, it would take almost three and a half months of continuous operation. Pretty sure my drill wouldn't survive that long.

try an air die grinder and some electrical tape, should get it goin good and fast , should only take a month or two, lol
or mabe just turn the 6th didget to 1
i dont even know if thats possible but its worth a try