| > I particularly wonder if it doesn't have something to do with 
> soldering the little yellow and yellow/green wires together. 
> Or because I bypassed the yellow wire with an 8 gauge from 
> the alternator, did I lose the power feed to the overdrive circuit?  
> 
> I'll be digging out my wiring schematics tonight when I get 
> home, but wondered if anyone else had btdt, and had the 
> solution in hand?  
Your alternator conversion shouldn't have been close to any OD-specific
wiring (which is all under the dash or under the car) (assuming your OD is
wired as original).  Normally the OD gets power from two places : the back
of the ammeter, and the back of the starter push-button.
Randall
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