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Re: Overdrive flakiness question

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Subject: Re: Overdrive flakiness question
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:56:26 -0700
You could check the oil level. It operates hydraulically. What kind of oil
is in there, anyway?

on 6/5/04 2:04 PM, Tab Julius at tab@penworks.com wrote:

> My '78 B has a switched (electric) autodrive; it's been great.
> 
> The last few trips I've noticed a disconcerting tendency for me to have it
> in fourth, put it into overdrive, and have it not respond.  It might kick
> into overdrive a few minutes later, or not at all.  Sometimes turning it
> off, shifting down, shifting up, turning it back on might make it go,
> sometimes it doesn't matter.
> 
> I'm worried that this might be a harbinger of something to come - anything
> simple I should look for? (Simple meaning something I can do other than
> wait for the thing to fail altogether).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - Tab


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires





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