Isn’t there something that inserts into the speedometer cable port on the transmission that in turn produces pulses?   You mount to speedo cable directly to it.

Jim Bowie wrote:

that's what i thought but everyone i seen are GM style, I ll keep looking

 
I think I have one or something like it in my tool box.  I don’t recall when or where I got it but it’s been sitting in my tool box for years.  I never really knew what it was or for.  I’ll try to remember and take picture of it tonight.  For all I know my memory could be playing tricks on me and it’s not what I think it is.   Lol

Check out Dakota Digital.   I use this set up.   https://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=46/category_id=-1/mode=prod/prd46.htm  

On my 67 coupe with EEC IV, i used the VSS, but just drilled the plastic casing to 7/16 and slipped my speedo cable in. Worked perfect.

Jim....I went with 'the magnet-on-the-shaft-trick' and it worked great until........
            my emergency brake cable managed to get wrapped around my front U-joint and cause "tremendous" havoc underneath the old hot rod!
Needless to say that wiped out the magnets and the lil pick-up that 'reads' the magnets as they spin around on the shaft
I said to my self......"self, no need to repair the magnet/pick-up thingie cause....
you gonna get the new & and improved VVS doo-jigger"
. That was 'a-few' years ago ....
BUTT..........the magnet set-up worked flawlessly !
6sally6

I am using both Digital Dakotas version and Rostra, there are in fact one in the same. I have the Rostra on my 65 stang and the Digital Dakota on my C10 both work very well. I use the turn signal controler

When I did the Foxbody EFI on Cara’s 65 coupe, I used the stock VSS and modified the original speedo cable to attach to the VSS, using a piece of fuel hose and a couple of hose clamps. It worked and the cable did not leak or make noise.  So, it can be done without custom parts being purchased if you innovate a bit.

MS wrote:

When I did the Foxbody EFI on Cara’s 65 coupe, I used the stock VSS and modified the original speedo cable to attach to the VSS, using a piece of fuel hose and a couple of hose clamps. It worked and the cable did not leak or make noise. So, it can be done without custom parts being purchased if you innovate a bit.

Thanks Steve That's about all i can do I innovate.Been doing that a long time

Jim Bowie wrote:

So received the VSS as Nos681 recommended, well now had to order pigtail that goes in it, we are getting close now for the install, question, is the pulse rate for the Ford VSS, 8000 per mile, and do you know if its a sine wave or square wave, also I assume that the one wire that go's to VSS is connected to one side of VSS and the other side is connected to ground., 

So nobody know the answers?

I posted this on another forum in 2017, I’m also using the VSS for the generated pulse to my Rostra cruise control.
My memory might be prodded with a specific question but as for now that’s all I can remember.
Without digging for hours through my schematics that’s all I got for now.
Memory loss is a biatch at 84 years of age. 🤬

From May, 2017.

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My Autometer electric speedo works off of a Ford VSS plugged into my AOD. I got the VSS from Autozone, cost was about 15 bucks. I got a VSS plug from a Crown Vic at a salvage yard and stayed with the same size wires that the plug came with. There was no shielding used and the speedo works great and easy to calibrate. <<<<

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Well after a week under the dash, under the  hood and under the car the 64 Fairlane now has cruise control, the vss sender from a 90's Ford worked great, speedo cable was cut 3" and fit perfect. I guess I could now say that my 64 Fairane now has  A.I.