I can confirm the 93 & 94 sensing from the tailshaft. I've had to do a bit
of researching on mine after putting a 93 harness into my 94; I've yet to
make the harness alterations to trigger the speedo(I'd rather add wires than
route a cable), and kill the airbag lights.
Aaron W
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Maskalans" <dml@tepidcola.com>
To: <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Speedo question.
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 Walt@Walt-n-Ingrid.Com wrote:
>
> >
> > Does anyone recall what year Dodge switched from a cable driven
> > speedometer to an electric one?
> >
>
> The third reply will again be a different answer, I thought it was from
> '95 to '96, along with OBD-I to OBD-II - though I must say that Hop's
> mention of '97 being cable driven and '98 being electronic does sound VERY
> familiar. Perhaps Bob Tom could confirm if his '97 is RWSS or cable
> driven from the output shaft.
>
> Though I think there are two questions you could be asking here, and I
> think I'm reading the wrong one....
>
> If I'm not mistaken, Dodge used a mechanical cable driven speedo for a
> while, probably halfway through the gen IIs (explaining the mentioned
> '93-'94 split, I think it was?) but the sensor/sender stayed in the tail
> shaft until '98 when rear ABS came around and speed sensing was done via a
> tone ring and hall effect RWSS in the rear diff.
>
> anyone else have any confirmations of anything?
>
> FWIW my '98 is an electronic RWSS.
> --
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