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-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrie Alexander <Lawrie@britcars.com>
To: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Paul A. Tegler, Jr
<wizardz@amdyne.net>; MG list <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 02 December 1998 03:20
Subject: Re: New old transmission??
>Ah, Paul, that's the price you pay for not going overseas like so many
other
>Brits................:-)
>
>You are not aware that US spec. Bs had a third switch on the gearbox to
tell
>the Advance control switch the car is in fourth and now it's OK to allow
>some vacuum to the distributor.
>
>See what you missed by staying home? Yet another piece of pollution-control
>equipment, brilliantly engineered by England's finest to produce mediocre
>results and distinct power losses!
>
>Lawrie
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
>To: Paul A. Tegler, Jr <wizardz@amdyne.net>; MG list <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 1:06 PM
>Subject: Re: New old transmission??
>
>
>>All O/D transmissions should have two switches - one is the reverse light
>>switch, the other is the O/D lockout switch that only allows the O/D to
>>operate in third and top. Not sure why a non O/D box should have two
>>switches, although my manual indicates that there were two positions for
>the
>>reverse-light switch on the early casing. The vacuum switch was
>>electrically connected to the overdrive, but not mechanically part of the
>>gearbox as far as I am aware.
>>
>>PaulH.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Paul A. Tegler, Jr <wizardz@amdyne.net>
>>>QUESTION: the old non-O/D transmission had two
>>>2-terminal switches on the right side of the transmission case.
>>>The O/D transmission has a single reverse sw. on the right
>>>side but there is also a little switch on the side of extension
supporting
>>>the shifter. Is this the switch that would have been used for the
>>>vacuums cut off relay used on some of the older years?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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