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Originally Posted by JohnMc
My wife put manual hubs on her '96 a few years ago. The ABS warning light obviously came on, but the speedometer did continue to work - running off the rear wheel sensors. Sort of, anyhow. It began dropping speedo readings at highway speeds after driving for a bit, only way to 'reset' it was to slow way down again. After messing around with that issue for a while with no resolution - she finally added a Tacoma speed sensor onto the transfer case. The ABS equipped 4Runners (all US market 3rd gens?) just have a metal plug/stopper stuck int hat position. Just a plain metal slug with an o-ring on it. Remove it, install the sensor, and do some wiring. Now here speedo/odo runs off that and has no issue at all.
Later on, she replaced the front wheel bearings and had the machine shop install ABS sensor rings as part of the job - and reenabled her ABS. But didn't bother to remove the Taco speed sensor.
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This is also a good way to correct your speedo after getting bigger tires and changing gears.
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