RE: Will swapping my ring and pinion gears mess up my spedometer?
Actually Jonnymagnum, you're incorrect.
I asked the same question on another forum, and the very confident answer from everyone who has done it before is no. It won't effect the speedometer. On older vehicles, what you said is correct. However, on our dakotas, the computer will read not only from the transmission output sensor but also the speed sensor in the rear differential and then it can "determine" what the gear ratio is just from that. The rear speed sensor is only looking at one thing in the rear diff, the tone wheel. That does not change when doing a rear ring and pinion swap so it will not effect the speedometer.
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