Sounds like you should have had a nice Chevy van rather than a Healey. A
bit hard
to impress a date when you have to go through that OD switch routine. And
besides it would have been a bit easier to have your way with your sweetie
in a van, if you know what I mean. ; )
Thanks for the input on the light. Sounds doable without all the fartarse
around.
( is that really a word down there?) )))))))
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Quinn, Patrick" <Patrick.Quinn@det.nsw.edu.au>
To: "Mark and Kathy" <mgtrcars@galaxyinternet.net>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 8:21 PM
Subject: RE: [Healeys] Overdrive Idiot light
G'day
I had such a light on my first BN1 back in the early 1970s. The reason
being was that the OD solenoid was wired direct to the switch as you
just couldn't buy the relays, centrifugal or gearbox switches back then.
Besides at just 20 years of age, it's Saturday arvo and there is a hot
date lined up, who wants to fartarse around with wiring?
The next week the solenoid packed it in. Solution? Simple drill a hole
in the gearbox tunnel and hook up a straightened wire coat hanger around
the OD lever and operate it by hand.
However you had to make sure the wire was quite short as it would snag
on the hot date's stockings, clothes etc during the later exercising.
As far as the idiot light wiring goes I seem to remember that it was a
wire from the cold side of the ignition switch to the OD switch then to
the idiot light set in the dash and then to earth.
Hoo Roo
Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces+patrick.quinn=det.nsw.edu.au@autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces+patrick.quinn=det.nsw.edu.au@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Mark and Kathy
Sent: Monday, 26 May 2008 9:52 AM
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] Overdrive Idiot light
I would like to install an overdrive light indicator to remind me that
my
overdrive is still on. Especially at night, how can any one tell on a
Healey unless you reach out and feel the switch. Seems to me that an
idiot
light could solve a few expensive problems.
A question for the Healeyperts on the list . Which switch would be the
most
effective to patch the light into to let me know that something is still
on.
The OD on/off switch would only tell me that switch is still ON, but if
there
was a malfunction else where I would want to have that information also.
Maybe the Lock Out switch would be a better area to light up. Which
switch
failure causes the most damage?
Mark
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