I have an 81 Camaro Z-28. I jus finished restoring the car and all thats left is finish up the body work and paint it. It had a 305 in it since Ive had it for 5 years now but I just dropped in a 350 bored 30 over and cammed will all the goodies.

One of the things I had to replace was the broken gauges that I assumed were the original ones. I found a set on Ebay and had them installed. Since I dropped in the new motor and these arent the original gauges I was wondering if there was a way to reset the mileage to 0. That way when driving season comes back around it will reflect my own miles?

Or if theres a place I can take it to do get it done.

Thanks Guys

 

Yeah, get an old speedo cable and a drill motor. Chop the internal cable off short, put it in the drill motor, then spin it until it reaches zero. Of course this may be illegal in your state, so check prior to doing so. Tampering with speedo mileage is illegal in many states.

 

It is, if you do reset it, I would have original documentation of the previous mileage incase you plan on selling it in the future, buyers like having those types of things

 

Since turning an odometer back is wrong, then turning it forward must be ok! I remember a spoof car commercial from a number of years ago, when odometer tampering was easy and a problem, the dealer says "we're so honest, we turn the odometers forward". Go forward enough, and you'll have low miles again. Not trying to advocate dishonesty, but to answer your question, yes you can easily remove the odometer portion from the speedo and change the miles to whatever you want. I reset the odometer to zero once many years ago on another 69 that I had totally rebuilt. When I sold the car, I did tell the buyer about the mileage. Changing miles on older cars is easy, but you gotta know what you're doing. There are certain fragile things to it that you don't want to break. I'd think about what you want to do, before you do it though. With old cars nowadays, where a lot of it may be replaced or rebuilt anyway, the miles it has is less of an issue, and in my opinion, doesn't mean as much.

 

I agree with Camaro 69. My car has 52,000 on the shell. Zero on the suspension, engine tires, and rear end. The trans is the only thing not new. I want to change that though. So... I don't think I am wrong for setting mine to zero. Gaugemarks will do it for me if I send them out. If I get a new set the speedo will be zero anyhow.

To the OP I think Vall's is easiest. I have done this with counters at work. Zip tie the trigger down and keep the batteries on the charger. You'll be there a minute.

 

It's gonna take a tad more than a minute. On a drill, the speedo needle will definitely be pegged, but how fast it's going would be a guess. Let's say the speedo is going 200, and he wants to wind the numbers forward 30k miles. That's going to take 150 hours to roll ahead. And hopefully the speedo won't be worn out by then! You wouldn't want to hook the drill to the cable down at the trans, as you'd probably weld the cable to the casing going that fast for so long. So since you'll want to remove the speedo anyway, might as well twirl the numbers by hand. Gee, I see a possible lucrative side-line here, too bad it's illegal. lol

 

I got lucky with my car.As I was driving it home,it clicked over to zero just up the road so when I got home it had one and a half miles on the clock.

 

I have the the speedo apart and the Odometer is really hard to move...Does anyone know what I have to take off to move them? or how I have to do it?

 

The odometer won't move until you remove it from the speedo housing. There's a slide clip on the one end of the shaft. Remove that and slide the odometer assembly in one direction, lift at an angle, then slide it all the way out in the other direction. You'll see metal tabs hanging down between each number wheel that fit onto a rail on the speedo housing. On the odometer, there is a plastic keeper that locks all those tabs together, and keeps one of the end ones from free spinning since it doesn't have a tab. That plastic piece is brittle, so do not break it!!! Very carefully, and slowly, work that keeper off with an Exacto knife, or something similar. After that, your numbers are free to twirl.
EDIT: Legal Disclaimer; under no circumstances are my instructions here to make anyone assume that I've ever taken apart, nor tampered with, an odometer. Yeah, yeah, that's it!

 

Hey your legal fine print is too large!