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RE: od again - long response

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Subject: RE: od again - long response
From: "Andrew Dixon" <adixon@loudoun.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:44:27 -0400
Cc: "'Gernot Vonhoegen'" <gernot.vonhoegen@stir.ac.uk>
Carl,
I realize this came from a manual but unless I'm reading this wrong, this is 
the same condition as when the steering column switch is on. The contacts 
are just electrically stuck. This provides potential but until one of the 
isolator switches is closed there is no path to ground, therefore no current 
flow through the solenoid, therefore no engaged solenoid. As the manual 
section reads to me, you'd have OD in all gears whenever you turned the 
switch on.
Andy

On 04/23/98 09:04 AM Musson, Carl said...
>
>>From the service manual for Overdrive Unit with Electrical Control (Pub
>#502274) p.7
>
>a) Built into the relay are switch contacts which switch the current to
>the solenoid when the coil is energized.  Should these contacts stick
>"IN" then the od would be operative on all gears including reverse.
>
>To Check: Remove wire from hot feed (probably starter solenoid
>switch/white) to operating switch.  Check the relay contact [c2] on the
>overdrive relay on the solenoid side.   If it is "alive" then the
>contacts are sticking.

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