Hi,
One advantage to being a newsletter editor, is that you swap newsletters
with clubs all over the place... and you see some neat stuff from time to
time.
Hopefully, someone on this list has also seen the article to which I'm
about to refer....
One of the S. Cal club newsletters recently featured an interesing "gizmo"
that a club member had built in order to test transmissions and
specifically O/D units with the 'box out of the car.
Having also suffered from installing a tranny of unknown history into my
car a few years ago, I too agree that having known the thing was frigged up
_before_ I put it in the car would have been extremely helpful, not to
mention relieving a lot of stress before that 2000 mile trip to Prince
Edward Island and back!
BTW, I didn't have the time to rebuild the "other" box for that car 'till
after the long trip, and that screwed up 'box is still in the basement
ready to be reassembled with the $400+ worth of replacement parts because I
didn't have time to work on it 'till it was waaaaaay too late.
At any rate, the gizmo to which I referred to is set up with some sort of
electric motor that turns the input shaft on the tranny. The tranny unit
itself was mounted to what appeared to be a stock TR rear engine plate,
and there was a control panel for the input shaft revs as well as a TR3
speedometer... very slick, and functional in appearance.
If anyone cares about such a device, I could post more about it including
the info about the author and the club, providing I can _find_ the
information now... ;-) But maybe we could get the club to send the info
into the VTR web site or something (or post it on the S. Cal. club web
site, if such a thing exists.
Bye.
rml
p.s. one of the drawbacks to being a club newsletter editor is that you
have to work on the newsletter instead of you car... oh well. Right now, I
need to work on the car... Portland, ME or Bust!!!
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Phone: | 617-253-7438 (days)| 781-438-2568 (eves)
Occupation: | ComputerZ | TR fixer-Upper
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