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1. Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Bob Hill <oldcars@newt.vallnet.com>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 07:08:39 -0600 (EST); Is there a way to determine if a car is an O/D car without driving it? I referring to the earlier models that had the switch on the wiper stalk. I assume that the engine number would tell or somethin; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00316.html (7,741 bytes)
2. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 08:34:00; According to my manual, the 78B has the switch on top of the gear shift stalk, last I looked at the manual (I don't have a O/D myself).; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00317.html (8,509 bytes)
3. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Bob Hill <oldcars@newt.vallnet.com>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 07:39:16 -0600 (EST); Yes on the later B's the P/D switch was on the lever but on the earlier models, the O/D switch was incorporated ionto the windshied wiper stalk.My understanding is that you would pulled it towards yo; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00319.html (8,895 bytes)
4. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: John Cahoon <j_cahoon@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 06:33:39 -0800 (PST); On my 1974 MGB, the OD includes a sticker placed on the plastic covering of the steering column indicating the ON/OFF settings for the switch arm. Perhaps the presence of that sticker is a good indic; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00322.html (9,826 bytes)
5. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: "Craig Brownlee" <cbrownle@ong.com>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:47:09 -0600; Look in you Moss Catalog.... (you know those guys that rip us off by providing tons of free information) They have a section in there that talks about serial numbers and how to read them. There is a; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00323.html (7,980 bytes)
6. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: "James H. Nazarian" <microdoc@apk.net>; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 11:41:37 -0500; Good Morning Craig, I would be most appreciative of your telling me where you found that information about O/D transmissions in the Moss catalog. I looked, but was without success finding any mention; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00331.html (8,727 bytes)
7. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Bob Hill <oldcars@newt.vallnet.com>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:05:33 -0600 (EST); Well I looked in Moss and did not find it however I did find it in the new Victoria British catalog (page 78 of the Fall 99 Edition). Thanks for the tip. Bob 79 MGB 77 MG Midget 74 MGB GT 97 Jaguar X; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00333.html (9,347 bytes)
8. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 10:40:31 -0800; Well, I just looked it up in Clausager, and I'm afraid the answer is "no". At no time did the vehicle number indicate whether the car came equipped with overdrive. In a Mk. I car you could check the; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00347.html (9,730 bytes)
9. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Bill Schooler <schooler@erols.com>; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 14:20:20 -0500; Now go to the Engine section of your Clausager book and look at the three charts of engine numbers. That's where you'll find the information in question. The same information IS in the Moss catalog,; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00353.html (8,687 bytes)
10. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 20:47:36 -0000; Surely that will only tell you what the factory sent it out with. Isn't the only way to look underneath and see? PaulH.; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00362.html (9,498 bytes)
11. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 16:01:13 -0500 (EST); 'Course you could always just drive it at 65mph and see what happens :); /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00364.html (8,479 bytes)
12. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:25:03 -0800; Aaahh -- I looked at the VEHICLE number section, since the reference was to "serial" numbers. Of course, this doesn't help if you don't have the original engine (I don't, for example), or know if you; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00365.html (9,686 bytes)
13. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 14:25:37 -0700 (MST); I wouldn't trust it blindly, but my roadster W/O OD does not have the ability for the stalk to flip into the OD position. My '71 GT has OD and the stalk flips. so if the stalk won't flip foreward or; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00366.html (9,465 bytes)
14. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: "Mark the Shark" <markie@gte.net>; Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 16:41:57 -0500; I believe in 1972 MG (was that way on my non-O/D 72) used that same stalk for all cars O/D or not so flipping the stalk may not necessarily indicate whether the car has O/D. Mark Ascherl Raleigh, NC; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00368.html (10,050 bytes)
15. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Bill Schooler <schooler@erols.com>; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 17:10:07 -0500; I agree completely - but I was just answering the question posed. Good point you make, however, and we all forgot about it in our haste to cite references. Bill; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00369.html (9,590 bytes)
16. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:20:58 -0400; ' Think the metal dash cars had a switch on the dash. "Pillow dash" cars up through '76 had 'em on the WW stalk as Bob says. ALL cars had the switch regardless of whether or not they had O/D. But, if; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00371.html (9,969 bytes)
17. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: Florrie & Allen Bachelder <bachldrs@swva.net>; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:26:35 -0400; ' Think, for example, 18V672Z was non-o/d and 18V673Z was o/d, or vise-versa. But my '73 GT with o/d and with the decal has the wrong engine, according to Moss. Could be (1) the engine has been repla; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00373.html (9,153 bytes)
18. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: "James H. Nazarian" <microdoc@apk.net>; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:18:37 -0500; I think Max is right, so it is with him that I cast my humble vote. Jim; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00380.html (9,761 bytes)
19. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: "James H. Nazarian" <microdoc@apk.net>; Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:15:50 -0500; Thank you for your guidance, but the question that you answered wasn't exactly the one I asked. I have an O/D installed in my car, so does James, the younger and I even will soon deliver the earlier; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00381.html (10,668 bytes)
20. Re: Determining if car has O/D (score: 1): Author: "Simon Matthews" <simon_atwork@hotmail.com>; Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 10:45:35 PST; How about looking underneath the car for the O/D unit? The stalk switch won't tell you, because early '70's 'Bs had the same switch whether or not equipped with O/D. Simon; /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00453.html (7,719 bytes)

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