If the relay is intermittent or fully TU it's probably burnt points. It's
possible to carefully open up the relay,
clean up the points with a point file--remember to clean them after filing with
contact cleaner--then close them up
again. You could get thousands of miles off a repaired relay.
Bob
On 9/2/2014 2:46 AM, Per Schoerner wrote:
> Hi
> It's a matter of if you want it to look original or not I think. The
> overdrive relay is just a relay, I can buy a
> relay at my local shop here for #3 and it will do the job just fine. But it
> doesn't look original. Also, there are
> different relays in early cars. The relays for the BJ8 are much cheaper,
> possibly the same as the Jaguar relays you
> refer to.
> If you have the original, not working, relay you can rebuild it by putting a
> new modern relay for #3 inside it and it
> will look very original.
>
> Per
>
> Michael MacLean skrev den 2014-09-02 00:01:
>> Can someone tell me why the overdrive relay costs $189 at Moss, only $44 two
>> places on Ebay and only $25 at Victoria
>> British? When I look up the same relay on the Holden site, they say it is a
>> 12V normally open all purpose relay that
>> was used on Jaguars for the horns. They sell it for 38.50 pounds. I
>> suppose it will work for the overdrive, but
>> there has to be something going on with such a big price difference at Moss.
>> And what the heck is Victoria British
>> selling for $25?
>> Mike MacLean
>> 56 BN2
>> 60 AN5
>> _______________________________________________
>
>
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