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1. LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: "Ray Wygonik" <RWYGONIK@iup.edu>; Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:01:34 -0400; I've been off the list for awhile but need your help. Several years ago I purchased a LH overdrive transmission on ebay from a garage in England. I am now just getting around to putting it in the car; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00173.html (6,459 bytes)
2. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Chad Cooper <mgb72@airmail.net>; Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 22:44:11 -0500; You will only hear one click and it may be faint. The fluid pressure is what forces the solenoid back to it's dinsegaged position when the OD is running, so when at rest it will go to it's holdinh p; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00178.html (8,639 bytes)
3. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>; Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:23:29 -0500; I wonder how many of us lay under the car, scratching our heads for a while, thinking, "Now how do I get that little ball back up in there on the tip of that plunger?" (G) Ray, You're in the same boa; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00181.html (7,933 bytes)
4. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:26:47 -0400; The solenoid makes very little noise in the LH overdrive. You may not hear it. John Esposito, Quantum Mechanics, tests the ODs on his bench by driving the input shaft with a 1/2" electric drill. Tho; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00186.html (8,907 bytes)
5. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: "Ray Wygonik" <RWYGONIK@iup.edu>; Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:08:48 -0400; While I didn't have to lay under the car wondering how to get the little ball back in, I did have to crawl around the garage floor and find it after I dropped it! If the OD doesn't work I guess I wou; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00192.html (8,709 bytes)
6. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: "Ray Wygonik" <RWYGONIK@iup.edu>; Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:11:42 -0400; Thank you, that would definitely be worth the trouble to do. I thought OD was good in 3rd and 4th but wasn't sure if I read that or just appeared in my head one day. Usually things disappear from my; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00193.html (9,604 bytes)
7. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Chad Cooper <mgb72@airmail.net>; Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:50:42 -0500; Been there Charlie, last time I took a dab of wheel bearing grease and that was enough to hold the ball in place...I only thought of this after three or four attempts with no success. Chad; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00194.html (8,344 bytes)
8. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>; Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 20:16:35 -0500; I thought about that but then I hit on the idea of a strong magnetic pick-up tool applied to the base of the plunger. The magnetic field running thru the plunger and ball was enough to hold the ball; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00199.html (8,933 bytes)
9. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 15:49:10 +0100; Depends on the configuration of the lockout switch on the gearbox. Up to late 76 it was always on 3rd and 4th, after that on 4th only on North American spec cars. May have reverted to 3rd and 4th aga; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00216.html (7,774 bytes)
10. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>; Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:28:38 -0500; When I built the engine in the '70 B that I owned out in West TX, I went wih a 284* cam and hi compression pistons, ported an polished the head, etc. So when I stuck in the LH O'drive out of a parts; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00221.html (8,478 bytes)
11. RE: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: "Steve Shoyer" <Steve@shoyer.com>; Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 18:00:21 -0400; My 1980 North American model only allows OD in 4th (at least it would if I reconnected the switch). --Steve (1980 MGB) -- Original Message --; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00222.html (7,649 bytes)
12. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 09:02:27 +0100; ... and remembers to switch it off when reversing! Which someone else who may drive the car may not know. A very risky thing to do, IMHO. PaulH. -- Original Message --; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00227.html (7,929 bytes)
13. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Hans Duinhoven <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>; Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 14:53:05 +0200; Right so Paul. Just curious how the OD works: can't the OD circuit be interlocked with a relay, which is activated by the reverse light voltage? By this the OD will be switched off when the reverse g; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00250.html (8,648 bytes)
14. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>; Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 12:06:04 -0500; Hoo boy, an admonition from the OD police. (BG) I never recommended doing it. I only recounted what I did - and got away with. I knew the risks and accepted them. In my present B, with OD, the lockou; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00252.html (8,372 bytes)
15. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 08:49:10 +0100; Not an admonition to you or anyone else, just a warning to anyone who may not know the risks and be tempted to try it. PaulH. -- Original Message --; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00270.html (7,898 bytes)
16. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 09:40:00 +0100; Hi Hans, Yes, it could, but I have never known an interlock switch fail closed, so there is no real need to provide a *second* interlock circuit, which still needs the reverse light switch (same desi; /html/mgs/2006-05/msg00271.html (8,808 bytes)
17. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Hans Duinhoven <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>; Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:03:57 +0200; Do we all fear the Prince of Darkness! I do not have an OD, but would immediately arrange an extra interlock activated by the reverse light circuit. Being an electric engineer, I dare to challenge th; /html/mgs/2006-06/msg00001.html (8,619 bytes)
18. Re: LH Overdrive help needed (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:30:33 -0700; Two points: 1) until 1967 or thereabouts there was no reverse lamp circuit; 2) the transmission switch for the reverse lamps is the exact same switch as the OD lockout -- check out the part numbers.; /html/mgs/2006-06/msg00003.html (9,427 bytes)

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