Well I'm about to buy a SR5 cluster for my 93 p/u. What is the best way to go about adjusting the odometer? It has 58,000 and mine has 170,000. Do I switch the odometers, or can I turn the new one to match? Thanks!

 

You can either take it to a speedo shop and have them adjust it or you can put a sticker on the door jam stating that you replaced the odometer along with the end mileage of the original and the starting mileage (what it reads right now) of the new one.

 

I know on my 95 4Runner I was able to just switch the odometers out so that I didn't have to worry about anything else. It may or may not be the same with yours.

 

As the first respondent said... The fed and state folks make a really big deal about maintaining an air-tight paper trail on odo readings.

Couple of additional notes:

- If you're in a remote area with no speedo (or 'speedo-capable') shop nearby, there are speedo specialists who'll do it if you ship it to 'em (presumably with adequate supporting documentation).

- Somewhere in the last month or so someone (here? CustomTacos?) reported changing out a cluster on his early ('9X) Tacoma. This guy did something I'd never heard of before - he disassembled the new cluster and literally swapped the original odo into it. So I guess that actually can be done - but still not sure if that might work on your '93...

 

Runninclean has the right idea - just swap in the odometer portion from the old one and you're done. All you need is a screwdriver. Make sure it's a metric screwdriver....

 

If you can't change out the odo there is a place in you owners manual package to record the change.

 

I have doen the swap and it is actually very easy. I assume the old odo had no trip odometer and the new one does.

The hardest part i have run into is actually taking off the needle. The one I was getting rid of was glued on to a splined shaft and it had to be broken to remove (BE CAREFUL IF YOU HAVE THIS KIND) The keeper was easy it was just pressed onto a splineless pin.

Once the needle is off, remove the two small screws to remove the facia. You will now have the speedo unit ready to swap. The backing is built to accept the tripodometer, but the one with the tripodometer will have a small gear riveted to it, for this reason you will need to use that trip-equipped unit.

Simply unscrew the two screw holding the odometer on, and switch them. It's that easy.

I went to the junkyard and practiced on a unit there before I screwed up mine. It really isn't hard.

Hope that helps