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RE: Gearbox wires

To: "'David Gates'" <dgates@lava.net>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Gearbox wires
From: Craig Smith <CraigS@iewc.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:07:33 -0600
I have the other end of the problem,
I have two wires coming out of the main harness and nothing to plug into
!
I don't have anything on the tranny.... wanna trade ?


-----Original Message-----
From: David Gates [mailto:dgates@lava.net]
Sent: Monday, March 15, 1999 2:37 PM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Gearbox wires



Ray,

I recently went thru the same swap and had the same result.  Two extra
wires close to the front of the gearbox that came from a switch on the 3
rail.  I never connected them an have not had any problems.  I do not
however know what they go to.  Anyone else know?

David Gates

At 10:54 PM 3/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hi y'all,
>I just replaced my 3 rail with a single rail gearbox and I noticed that
my
>old tranny had 2 switches on it.  One was the reverse light switch and
the
>other seemed to be useless.  It was on the top front close to the rail.
It
>looked like it might have something to do with an overdrive but I
didn't
>have an overdrive.  Anyway, I don't know what to do with the wires
since I
>only have the reverse light switch on the newer tranny.  Does anybody
know
>what that switch was for and what I should do with the wires?
>
>Also, if anybody wrote to me about the old tranny, you might want to
send
>it again because I seemed to to trashed all of my mail by accident.
>Ray
>
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>Keller, Texas
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