Overdrive qs: forwarded

From: TheMole (dbilesky(at)cln.etc.bc.ca)
Date: Mon Oct 21 1996 - 09:38:54 CDT


The OD box is a separate unit.

The rest of the questions I leave to the open market.

dgb

>Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:37:48 +0300
>X-Sender: lorenzo(at)personal.eunet.fi
>To: TheMole <dbilesky(at)cln.etc.bc.ca>
>From: lauri(at)lorenzo.pp.fi (Lauri Lehtinen)
>Subject: Re: A bunch of Parts available
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>
>I am very interested about overdrives, but:
>* Does an overdrive unit sit straight to the rear end of a std gearbox?
>(Alpine / Hunter 'box from 70's have a threaded hole for solenoid in the
>column case, opposite to the solenoid of "reverse light" -what the real
>name may be- , so it seems to me, std box did not differ very much from the
>O/D box).
>* Did Humbers, Hunters, Vogues etc. have same type of overdrives as an
>option? Are they all gone, or is it such easy to find units from Britain?
>* I have heard Laycock - de Normanville units were quite durable. Correct?
>* Few years back Sunbeam Supreme had secondhand overdrives in stock. So it
>seems to me they use Humber/Hunter cars as a source.
>
>I ask all these questions only because it is easier to ship only an O/D
>unit or its casings instead of the whole power train. To me Siberia is as
>close as London.
>
>Larry Leaflet
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