[Fot] J-type overdrive reluctant to disengage

[Barr, Scott]

In my case, I switched over to Redline MT-90 (interestingly, the
recommendations were more numerous on the MT-90 side than on the MTL side).
The trans does shift out of overdrive slightly more often than it did
previously, but not reliably enough to use it on the race track this weekend.
AND it's leaking like a sieve (the trans front seal was leaky to start with,
and is even more so with the synthetic in it).

So I'll be pulling the trans out of there tomorrow and dragging it down to
Steve Yott to go through it before the KasCup.

Scott B.

-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Larry Young
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 1:23 PM
To: EDWARD BARNARD
Cc: Sam & Carol Clark; FOT at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] J-type overdrive reluctant to disengage

Yes, we had a club member who had this problem with an A type rebuilt by
Quantum.  On Ed's suggest, he went to Redline MTL and I haven't heard anything
more about it, so it must have worked.  Sam, do you know?
Larry

On 8/14/2013 10:56 PM, EDWARD BARNARD wrote:
> Scott:
> Esposito builds them very tight. You need to drain the tranny and O/D
> and refill with Redline MTL. Use MTL, not any of the weight specific
> MT Redlines. They have other undesirable additives. In fact, the
> bottle label states that. This has fixed every one of the tight O/D's
> I/we have found...right Larry Y?
> -Ed-
>
>
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> To: "fot at autox.team.net"
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:03 PM
> Subject: [Fot]
> J-type overdrive reluctant to disengage
>
>
> So I have my new J-type overdrive
> trans in the Spit and took it out down the back road near my house tonight.
> The overdrive engages and sometimes disengages.  But a lot of the time
> it remains in overdrive despite flipping the switch off.
>
> The trouble shooting
> section of the manual lists several possible causes (none of which I
> like because they sound like removal of the trans).  Sticking
> solenoid, sticking cone clutch, clogged control orifice, faulty wiring.
>
> I wouldn't think wiring
> is the issue if it works right some of the time.  Any chance this
> relates to running it at lower revs than I would on track?
>
> Freshly rebuilt box from
> Quantum Mechanics, John Esposito.
>
> Scott Barr
> McCarty Law LLP
> (920) 257-2233
> sbarr at mccarty-law.com<mailto:sbarr at mccarty-law.com>
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