OldIHC

Just out of curiousity is there a way to find out the exact miles on your binder? my meter reads about 04,569 but im not sure how long the speedo gear in the transmission has been worn out so im assuming 104,569?

It's very possible your truck is over 104,000 miles, but there is some chance it stopped working after 4,000 depending on how the former owner(s) used the truck. Once the speedo gear ceases to operate, the odometer won't add more miles until that gear is fixed. Your's would be the first one I've heard about actually making it over the 100,000 mile mark if that is the case. Others may have different experiences, but almost everyone who's reported their speedo mileage on this forum has expressed that the speedo stopped working long before it reached 100,00. My L110 stopped at 66,557.

I guess IH had it figured by the time the Loadstar line came up. My 71 is showing well over 100,000 miles. It has the extra digit in the odometer. I can't remember, did the R and S series have it?

I dont believe so as far as the extra digit i mean

Pappy had a '62 C-100 Travelall. Originally it had a 99,999.9-mile odometer. Sometime in the mid-1960's the speedo head went bad, and the replacement speedo head was the million-mile version. When he got rid of the Travelall, between the two speed heads it had logged either 254,xxx or 256,xxx miles [been a few years, so I don't recall exactly] without ever having a head or the oil pan off the SV-304 engine.

I've turned a couple speedos over 100,000 miles without breaking, I always made sure my speedo cable was lubed,

I turned my KB-6 speedo back to zero when I got it, then sungear in trans went out at 400 miles (new miles),

I diagnosed all the way up, speedo works with drill, speedo cable works with drill,

pencil gear turns speedo cable sungear doesn't turn pencil gear, hardest part to replace out of them, my luck

Hope mine will run that long or longer when im done

Back in the 60's in automotive class the things I remember to look for to know if the speedometer had turned over. If it has a colored steering wheel and the color is worn through. If the brake and clutch rubber pedal pads are worn slick usually on one side or a corner. If the floor mat is worn through where your heel rests below accelerator pedal. Those are the ones I remember off the top of my head. Will try to look at a Chiltons manual from mid 60's tomorrow, seems like it had those clues listed. MM

That only works sometimes. My Town Car has around 175k miles (290k kms) and is showing barely any wear on any of those things, even the original floor mats are still decent, just a little heal mark under the gas pedal.

I think what matters more is how the vehicle was used, city or highway miles, gravel back roads or asphalt etc. I try to ignore odometers as they can often be very misleading when judging a cars overall condition.