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Re: O.D. - to clutch or not to clutch...

To: Lawrie Alexander <Lawrie@britcars.com>
Subject: Re: O.D. - to clutch or not to clutch...
From: ccrobins <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 21:01:37 -0600
Hi Lawrie,

  See below.

Lawrie Alexander wrote:
> 
> A flame? Man, you should see me when I really feel someone is talking
> through the back of their neck!

  You make a remark like "ccrobins says we should blindly follow the
manual...", and that's not a flame?  Spare me.
> 
snip
> 
> I honestly don't believe my '68 overdrive "has problems" just because, in
> that one respect, it differs from how a new one might have worked.


  If it doesn't disengage the way it's supposed to it has a problem.

   snip

  Lawrie,  I used to disengage my OD under "steady running" power most
times, because I was trying to not stress the thing.  But after I got it
right, I didn't have to do it that way.  

> I'm a good enough mechanic to know that I'm saving something from being 
>damaged.

  Aw, you really mean "further damaged."   My contention is that if it
clunks it isn't right.  Furthermore, if some of the new ones didn't work
right, the indictment should be of BL's QC, not the manual.  The manual
presumes that the OD is in good working order, not necessarily new.

Anyhoo, I was commenting about that kind of post in general:  "The
manuals say I ought to set it like so; is that right?"  Why buy the
books?

  CR



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