Rewinding The Speedo

[SargeRX8]

Hey all,

I know this is usually done as a dodgey kind of thing but I give you my word I am doing this for a true and honest reason. Possibly because I got jibbed too.

Well I bought a replacement Skyline today an early 1996 s2 mspec. But first thing I noticed was the cluster was different to my S2. Its ugly, it doesnt have the circle things around the indicator things.

Well Ive still got my old R33 in tact and still have the cluster with a reading of 119xxx. I want to put it in my car but the car I bought has 82000. Now, I could put it in and just swap it out later on, but for the

sake of fairness and just well, I like to be honest with my self here, I want to rewind the clock I took out of my series 2 and put it in my series one.

If someone can PM me how it can be done. It looks like an electronic signal is sent from the box controlling the counter inside the speedo. I dont want to break the thing and I dont want to fork out money for

one on eBay with 70000km on it. I know places will trade it in for theirs and they will just rewind it and sell it off, but like I said, this is a true, honest request.

If it can be done it would be greatly appreciated. If you need proof I will take photos of everything just to show I'm not f**king around here.

Cheers.

[89CAL]

it might not be very straight forward as the speed (and therefore odometer) runs off an electronic signal from the gearbox. Someone might know but not many would have tried I dont think

[mosquitocoils]

I've done it on my old laser, just to match up the numbers when I swapped a good cluster in to my broken down hunk of junk.

If you have a tiny flathead screw driver (the sort you would use for computer parts), it's possible to get between and kind of seperate the numbers from each other, then turn the numbers to what you want...... then remove the screwdriver and it should click back in place.

This also has potential to wreck the whole mechanism. I would never do it on the skyline cause the clusters are actually worth decent money lol. But the laser cluster cost me $20, so I thought I'd give it a go.

For anyone reading this, thinking I'm a criminal... let me tell you..... when I changed the ODO on the laser, I was actually winding it FORWARDS to match

[mad082]

not sure what exact part of the new speedo you like, but 1 option may be to simply change the speedo part of the cluster to put your current cars speedo and odometer into the cluster you like the look of more. this way you still have the legitimate kms

[SargeRX8]

mad I think you're onto something. I just popped the face off the new cluster. Im gonna remove the old one from the car and see if I can pop the face off that one. The cluster in my car is just flat. The one ive got is like a new design and like all the icons have circles around them. it just looks crisper.

Fingers crossed they line up! Can anyone confirm if the lights and indicators are all in the exact same place?

[Victory]

I would just put your new speedo into your old cluster - it is an easy job just undo four screws and they come out.

That way you have the series 2 face with the correct speedo.

[SECURITY]

Does anyone know what the rules are in terms of registration when it comes to replacing a broken odometer?