Re: Correcting speedometer

"Jarhead" <baldintexas@excite.com> wrote in message news:...
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| "Mike" <dieselcowgirl@gulftel.com> wrote in message
| news:dk924m01f4r@enews4.newsguy.com...
| | Just took my 87 Toyota 5 speed manual transmission and put 29 inch
| tires on
| | it. The previous tires where about 26" diameter. Question> How do I
| get the
| | speedo to read right? thanks.
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| You should be ok with what you have. What does the door sticker list
as
| the tire size? Mine listed 225's. I had an '87 that came with 33's the
| previous owner had installed on it. Way too much tire for me. Before I
| put 235's on it I used this calculator
| [url]http://www.dakota-truck.net/TIRECALC/tirecalc.html[/url] to find the
| odometer/speedometer correction. When I put the 235's on it they were
| right on according to the mileage markers and construction radar
signs.
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| Jarhead
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human
| passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was
made
| only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the
| government of any other."
| -John Adams
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