Possibly due to this ratio overlap, the factory eventually went to only
having OD available in 4th gear, making its primary function as a top-end
cruising gear is more apparent.
on 6/12/03 5:09 AM, Paul M. at rowman22001@yahoo.com wrote:
>> Anyway, I was interested to read and have
>> heard before that the OD works in
>> 3rd and 4th. This is a little confusing to me...
>> Does it mean you have like a 3 and a half gear
>> and then a 5th???
>
> I'm sure someone will calculate all the ratios out and
> give you a more definitive answer, but it seems to me
> that it results in something more akin to "two fourth
> gears and a fifth."
>
> In my (admittedly unscientific) seat-of-the-pants
> evaluation, third gear with overdrive results in
> almost identical revs per MPH as fourth gear without
> overdrive. (If the tach didn't bounce around over a
> range of a couple hundred RPM I could probably pin it
> down a little more accurately...)
>
> So it seems that offering OD in third is aimed more as
> a lazy person's convenience. Like maybe when driving
> calmly on a winding road where you could ordinarily be
> shifting somewhat frequently between third and fourth.
>
> But it doesn't feel like a "six speed".
>
> Cheers,
>
> =====
> Paul Misencik
> 1971 MGB Tourer - Blaze
>
> Huntersville, NC USA
>
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