I have been lurking on and off the alpine and tiger lists for the past five years, and have found much useful information for the 1967 Alpine S5 that I bought in 1989. The car has been in storage for the past 2.5 years due to lack of time and money (completed PhD, post-doc, 2 kids and house - so this is what real life is supposed to be about!)
I now have the time to get the car back on the road, and almost everything checks out fine - except the overdrive.
I did not know that the overdrive was supposed to be self-cancelling in 1st, 2nd and reverse gears. However, reading though the Rootes shop manual, I've come across section E.1 that describes this feature. I've checked my car, and I believe that the yellow wire that comes from the C2 connector on the relay was connected directly to the overdrive solonoid.
According to fig 4b (p5) in the same section of the manual, the yellow wire (from C2) should be connected to a "gearbox switch" and the yellow/purple wire (from C1 on the relay) should be connected to the solonoid .
Here's the question: where is the "gearbox switch" located on the car and how is it accessible? where should the wire travel to get from the gearbox switch to the C2 connector on the relay?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Louis
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