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Re: Gearbox wires

To: David Gates <dgates@lava.net>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Gearbox wires
From: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:55:39
Maybe they were running low on regular tops and used some o/d tops instead?
 Don't know but stranger things have happened.

Patrick

 insideAt 10:36 AM 3/15/99 -1000, David Gates wrote:
>
>Ray,
>
>I recently went thru the same swap and had the same result.  Two extra
>wires close to the front of the gearbox that came from a switch on the 3
>rail.  I never connected them an have not had any problems.  I do not
>however know what they go to.  Anyone else know?
>
>David Gates
>
>At 10:54 PM 3/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>Hi y'all,
>>I just replaced my 3 rail with a single rail gearbox and I noticed that my
>>old tranny had 2 switches on it.  One was the reverse light switch and the
>>other seemed to be useless.  It was on the top front close to the rail.  It
>>looked like it might have something to do with an overdrive but I didn't
>>have an overdrive.  Anyway, I don't know what to do with the wires since I
>>only have the reverse light switch on the newer tranny.  Does anybody know
>>what that switch was for and what I should do with the wires?
>>
>>Also, if anybody wrote to me about the old tranny, you might want to send
>>it again because I seemed to to trashed all of my mail by accident.
>>Ray
>>
>>**********************************************************************
>>Ray Bryant
>>Keller, Texas
>>'73 Spitfire 1500 (FM6879U), Daily driver
>>Red River Triumph Club http://www.imagin.net/~hensley/rrtc.html
>>Bryant Studios Photography http://www.flash.net/~photoray
>>**********************************************************************
>>
>>
>>
>
Patrick Bowen
'79 Spitfire
Jacksonville FL

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