When ordered the new one for my 81 CJ, D 300, it took me about 20 minutes
of going around to finaly get it in, and the 3 or 4 marking points didn't
seem to mean anything as far as I could tell, so it's not in according to
directions, but it works and read right. By the way I went from a 26 tooth
to 34.

"Jeff Scherb" > wrote in message
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> The prior owner put 31 x 10.50 tires on my Scrambler, but it's got the
> orginal speedo gear in the transfer case, so the speedo is way off.
>
> I ordered a speedo gear at the dealer but it didn't work. The shaft on the
> new gear is identical, but the gear itself is much smaller. I tried
> clocking the gear in all 4 positions but it didn't seem to engage inside
> the transfer case in any position, presumably because the gear is much
> smaller (too small for the offset provided by clocking to matter).
>
> The dealer and I have checked the parts books and the books claim we
> ordered the right gear.
>
> It's an '83, Dana 300 transfer case.
>
> Has anyone had this problem before or know anything about different size
> gears in Dana 300's?
>