What on a 1997 F-150 holds the memory of the milage of the vehicle I recently changed the cab on my 97 flareside truck and now my gauge package is reading 300,000 instead of the 180,000 km's that the truck actually has I tried putting my old guages in and still coming up 300,000 it must be recorded in something else can anyone help me out.Thanks

 

The vehicle that has the PCM will retain the memory of the mileage.

 

is that something I can change from one cab to the other both same year cabs

 

I thought the 97-98's had an analogue odometer?

 

Sorry just asked my son and both cabs are 2000 not 1997 it was his truck originally he bought as a accident victum and bought another truck to rebuild it now he has lost interest so inherited the truck and I'm going to finish it. But at least it is three years newer then I first thought better for me sorry for the confusion

 

ah okay - bottom line is you have to get the stealership to reprogram the cluster/pcm when you change them. It sucks but that's the only way I think

 

I'm heading to Ford today on another issue, will ask them about its memory, 2000xl Toronto has a good point, but you put old speedo back in. Am totally confused?

 

From Ford service, keys, key cylinder, cluster and PCM all have to be from the same truck. Cannot interchange parts with out Ford doing its thing. Its all part of the anti theft stuff.

 

oK thanks guys I guess I will stick with the 300,000 odometer reading cluster sounds like alot of work to get it changed back to the milage the truck really has.
Thanks again