I'm getting desperate now, can't find a cable driven VSS for a manual tranny d15 to save my life...I bought one from a guy on here a while back, but it wasn't the right one. If anyone has the right one, or know someone who may have one..PLEASE let me know...

OR I need to find an alternative...like some electronic GPS thing I can wire into the car to use for a speedo/mileage tracker (I don't want to use my phone for that)

Thanks in advance guys

 

junk yard find them all day

 

I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter what transmission you have since the vss is the same in all gauge clusters in our generation of civic


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The VSS isn't in the cluster, it's in the transmission..they are not all the same.

 

Thank you I was like really! lol

 

No, the VSS does not exist in our generation of cars (88~91).
There is a gear drive in the transmission that spins a cable.
It does NOT have a speed sensor of any sort in the transmission.
The cable drives runs to the back of the gauge cluster. and attaches behind the speedometer.
Mounted to the back of the speedometer is a SPEED PULSER.
This is the equivalent to a newer model tranny mounted VSS.

So for all general purposes, you are WRONG.

 

If you want to use a REAL VSS, then you simply need to toss the cable drive in the trash and replace it with a VSS from a newer model.
You will also need to replace the cluster to have a functioning speedo.

If you currently don't have a functioning speedometer, then it is more than likely that you have a check engine light throwing a code 17.
Your gas mileage is suffering dearly if this is the case.

 

apparently you do not know what you have in your car....

 

Whoa, my bad...that I don't know the actual name..

All I know is that ever since I bought the car there was not a gear drive for the speedo cable, so it's throwing a code 17..make sense while the gas mileage sucks..

So, what is the technical name for this if it's not a VSS?

 

It's still a VSS, it provides the same reference voltage and pulses as the VSS from a newer car. Guess Honda decided that using the cable to drive the speedo and having the unit attached to the cluster and then wired to ECU was more of a PITA then using the gauge to read the same pulse the ECU was using anyway and simplify it.

*It's still called that because your gauge doesn't care how fast your car is going, but ECU does.

 

calling it the gear drive for the vss works or gear drive for the speedo cable. BUT if you walk into a junkyard and ask for a VSS for that car you will NOT get it, you will either be told the car does not have one or it is in the gauge cluster. As originally stated hit up a junkyard, i have never differentiated between any of the 5 spdd gear drives, i am pretty sure the auto ones are the same but i have not laid hands on those in years.

 

Here's the service manual diagram describing how to troubleshoot code 17. A bad speed sensor/pulser is only one of the possible causes for this code.

 

Went to the junkyard, found a couple...but could not get them out! I had vicegrips on them trying to wiggle out..but no luck

 

Finally, after the third time at the junkyard...got it out...had to wiggle the mess out of it to get it out.

Plugged it in the empty hole on my car today and bam, first time i've seen the speedometer move! Now the odometer won't be stuck at 236,619mi lol