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R: 5 speed vs. OD conversion

To: "MG List" <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: R: 5 speed vs. OD conversion
From: "Alberto Manganini" <albertom@tin.it>
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 00:06:42 +0200
> All said, I don't think that the overdrive transmission deserves any of
the
> bad press that it seems to get.  It is generally very reliable, and if
not
> DPO'd, is pretty much fool-proof too!  They aren't found in every
junk-yard,
> but they are readily available with a little searching, for less than the
> cost of the 5-speed adapter kit.  Plus the addition of the O.D. makes
your
> car worth more, whereas I doubt that the 5-speed will have the same
effect.

Hence your advice is to go for O/D. My starting point is a 3 synchro no O/D
car, what you suggest... buy an used 3syncho with O/D tranny, or just buy
the parts to add O/D to my transmission (and which are those parts?), or
keep it as it is, and be happy?
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