And I will publicly apologize for taking a private e-mail public, I assumed
I was making the clarification for everyone's benefit, and am used to
posting all my MG content with the MG in the cc: I will what that a little
closer from now on. I took nothing personally as I don't even have a OD yet.
Sorry for the misconceptions. I value all MG owners and what we all stand
for. If we all thought the same it would be a very boring world, besides if
we were all the same what would we do with all the MGB convertibles, (I
guess you can tell I own a GT :-) ! ) Thanks for listening to me rant and
rave.
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER [SMTP:CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 1997 4:51 PM
> To: 'mg'
> Subject: RE: OD engagement light
>
>
> What ever. Thank you for feeling the need to take our private discussion
> public. I don't know why you would take a personal email I sent you and
> reply cc ing it to the list. I would think you should ask permission
> first.
>
> Since, as you may recall, all mail I recieve from the list shows mgs-owner
>
> as the sender, unless people sign their email I cannot tell who wrote
> what.
> I thought we were talking about someone elses car here who it turns out
> installed the light to alert him if the wires fell off hisod. This was
> installed before his switch went. It appears that a whole bunch of people
> have taken some part of my post very personally and assumed the whole
> message was about them or their car. I have attempted to clear this up
> individually but I will now post part of one of my responses below. This
> is
> the end for me. I will no clutter the list with anymore on this topic. You
>
> may email me privately but if I should reply, please do not repost it to
> the
> list.
> *
> My reply was to deal with the misconception that the od is not worth the
> aggravation, that there are all of these special things you have to do to
> prevent damaging it. This notion was base primarily on the discussion
> spawned by your post and others regarding the problems you and others have
>
> had. Since I cannot see who the message poster is due to my email which
> shows mgs-owner as the sender, I can honestly say that I had no idea who
> was
> saying what unless they signed the message. I did not mean to pick you out
>
> as the object of my email so when you read "Someone" I don't necessarily
> mean you. I'm talking about DPO and their line of reasoning. There are
> plently of people on the list that do hack work on their B. I did not mean
>
> to imply that you specifically were hacking your car, just that the
> problems
> that were being sighted as reasons not to get an od were the result of
> hacking and have nothing to do with normal opperation of an unhacked od
> tranny.
> *
> Chris Reichle
> creichle@nsc.msmail.miami.edu
> ----------
> From: mgs-owner
> To: 'REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER'
> Cc: 'mg'
> Subject: RE: OD engagement light
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 1997 1:25PM
>
> NO! the fix was not to put a light in the circuit, the light was my
> question
> because I did not know there was a lockout switch that was supposed to be
> there, I have an OD but not yet installed, since I have neither installed
> or
> driven the OD I was asking a question, in fact my original question was
> "has
> anyone put a light in to show when OD is engaged, or is this even
> necessary?"
>
> Thanks
>
> Randy Rees
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER [SMTP:CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 1997 3:19 PM
> > To: Randy Rees (Volt Computer)
> > Subject: RE: OD engagement light
> >
> >
> >>>The switch that is the topic of discussion is a little ball
> switch that
> > closes the od circuit when the shifter is in either 3rd or 4th. When not
> > in
> > those gears it opens the circuit so that the od may not be engaged. So
> > basically, if you turn the od switch on it sends power to the ball
> switch
> > (3rd/4th lockout switch) which will send power to the coil only when the
> > shifter is in 3rd and 4th but no other gear. It sounds like the ball
> > switch
> > failed meaning it doesn't conduct electricity when it should and
> therefore
> >
> > even when in 3rd and 4th the od would not work. So the ball switch was
> > bypassed instead of fixed.
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