What ever. Thank you for feeling the need to take our private discussion
public. I don't know why you would take a personal email I sent you and
reply cc ing it to the list. I would think you should ask permission first.
Since, as you may recall, all mail I recieve from the list shows mgs-owner
as the sender, unless people sign their email I cannot tell who wrote what.
I thought we were talking about someone elses car here who it turns out
installed the light to alert him if the wires fell off hisod. This was
installed before his switch went. It appears that a whole bunch of people
have taken some part of my post very personally and assumed the whole
message was about them or their car. I have attempted to clear this up
individually but I will now post part of one of my responses below. This is
the end for me. I will no clutter the list with anymore on this topic. You
may email me privately but if I should reply, please do not repost it to the
list.
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My reply was to deal with the misconception that the od is not worth the
aggravation, that there are all of these special things you have to do to
prevent damaging it. This notion was base primarily on the discussion
spawned by your post and others regarding the problems you and others have
had. Since I cannot see who the message poster is due to my email which
shows mgs-owner as the sender, I can honestly say that I had no idea who was
saying what unless they signed the message. I did not mean to pick you out
as the object of my email so when you read "Someone" I don't necessarily
mean you. I'm talking about DPO and their line of reasoning. There are
plently of people on the list that do hack work on their B. I did not mean
to imply that you specifically were hacking your car, just that the problems
that were being sighted as reasons not to get an od were the result of
hacking and have nothing to do with normal opperation of an unhacked od
tranny.
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Chris Reichle
creichle@nsc.msmail.miami.edu
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From: mgs-owner
To: 'REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER'
Cc: 'mg'
Subject: RE: OD engagement light
Date: Thursday, October 30, 1997 1:25PM
NO! the fix was not to put a light in the circuit, the light was my question
because I did not know there was a lockout switch that was supposed to be
there, I have an OD but not yet installed, since I have neither installed or
driven the OD I was asking a question, in fact my original question was "has
anyone put a light in to show when OD is engaged, or is this even
necessary?"
Thanks
Randy Rees
> -----Original Message-----
> From: REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER [SMTP:CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 1997 3:19 PM
> To: Randy Rees (Volt Computer)
> Subject: RE: OD engagement light
>
>
>>>The switch that is the topic of discussion is a little ball
switch that
> closes the od circuit when the shifter is in either 3rd or 4th. When not
> in
> those gears it opens the circuit so that the od may not be engaged. So
> basically, if you turn the od switch on it sends power to the ball switch
> (3rd/4th lockout switch) which will send power to the coil only when the
> shifter is in 3rd and 4th but no other gear. It sounds like the ball
> switch
> failed meaning it doesn't conduct electricity when it should and therefore
>
> even when in 3rd and 4th the od would not work. So the ball switch was
> bypassed instead of fixed.
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