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Re: [Mgs] Overdrive does not work when it is hot.

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Subject: Re: [Mgs] Overdrive does not work when it is hot.
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:17:38 -0700
Eek, I don't think I'd do that. Too easy to forget just once...

Good suggestion about the switch. Mine had 2 or 3 paper washers under it to
set the depth, so he could play with those.


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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



on 8/31/10 1:21 AM, Charley & Peggy Robinson at ccrobins@ktc.com wrote:

> Don't know which OD you have but there's a switch on mine that prevents
> the OD from engaging 1st & 2nd gears.  This switch is adjustable as to
> the depth that is seats into the housing.  Sometimes heat expansion will
> cause the switch contacts to open up.  You might try turning it in a
> half turn or so.  It's located on the upper left side of the gearbox.  A
> quick check is to bypass that part of the wiring harness on the box.
> Just run a wire direct to the solenoid.  I did this on my '70B so as to
> have OD in all 4 forward.  Playing around.....  Be careful though, this
> is also the reverse lockout switch, AIR. ;-)
> 
> CR
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