Weird question, but ...

[PhilB]

... is it reasonably possible to increase the mileage shown on a mechanical odometer? My instrument panel got crunched, and I'm buying a used replacement. The replacement, though only shows a little under 12K miles, and mine is showing 47K. I'd like it to be reasonably accurate. Does anyone know of a good way to add about 35K to the new odo, other than spending about 600 hours driving the mechanism with a drill?

PhilB

[SVRACER01]

maybe ducati north america would be willing to help.

[golden chicken]

How crunched? Could you swap the guts from one to the case of the other?

[oVTo]

Set up a 1:100 gear ratio and drive it with a drill for 6 hours?

[PhilB]

How crunched? Could you swap the guts from one to the case of the other?

As far as I know, the speedo itself is a single glued-together unit that you have to break into to access. My original speedo and odo still work, but the faceplate got mangled and mostly torn off of the unit. Here's a picture of what it looks like now. The bike fell over in a parking lot, and the very edge of the instrument panel caught on the footpeg of the next bike, and mangled it. Half an inch to the right, there would have been no damage. Half an inch to the left, it would have smashed the whole thing. I don't see a good way to get the internals of this into a fresh speedo casing.

PhilB
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[Stromper]

If this was the 70's a guy at Jerome ave in the Bronx you would hook you up for $25

For my brothers BMW I just kept the old spedometer and plan to tell a buyer the story

[number9]

... is it reasonably possible to increase the mileage shown on a mechanical odometer? My instrument panel got crunched, and I'm buying a used replacement. The replacement, though only shows a little under 12K miles, and mine is showing 47K. I'd like it to be reasonably accurate. Does anyone know of a good way to add about 35K to the new odo, other than spending about 600 hours driving the mechanism with a drill?

PhilB

Got access to a lathe? I've seen it done where the speedometer drive unit is hooked up to a lathe and spun in place for as long as is necessary.

[PhilB]

If this was the 70's a guy at Jerome ave in the Bronx you would hook you up for $25

For my brothers BMW I just kept the old spedometer and plan to tell a buyer the story

Yeah, I could just keep the old one around and do the math. But the coolest thing about this bike is the mileage, so it's worth something to me to keep a decent record of it, and to be able to snap a pic every 50K.

Got access to a lathe? I've seen it done where the speedometer drive unit is hooked up to a lathe and spun in place for as long as is necessary.

That sounds like a possibility. Thank you.

PhilB

[Rambunctous]

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[RadHawk]

How crunched? Could you swap the guts from one to the case of the other?

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