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If it looks like the one in this picture <br>
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and has a big brass drain plug on the bottom of it, it's an A type
overdrive.<br><br>
My tranny had the ability to use OD in 2nd, 3rd and 4th, but there's
little stock about the car so I'm not sure if that was normal for A types
or not.<br><br>
Cheers, Tony Drews<br><br>
At 09:50 PM 6/4/2015, Creig Houghtaling wrote:<br>
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First an update. Last I wrote I was whining about my new trunk seal
not allowing my TR4A trunk lid close. I had suggestions of seals
that weren?t so tall. One suggestion was the seal from a TR6.
So I worked with that idea and found that if I trimmed the new seal all
the way down to the base around the bottom edges and half way up the
sides I could actually close the trunk and latch it.
SUCCESS!!! Thanks for the help!<br>
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Then I took it for a drive around the block and tried out the
overdrive. AAAARRRRGGGGG!!! Smoke was escaping from the
wires! Couldn?t reach any of the wires from under the car, so took
the freshly installed interior apart again. I found 2 issues.
I hooked the live up through the ground switches side. So
when I had continuity in 3<sup>rd</sup> gear and engaged the OD switch I
sent live straight to ground. Good way to make your wires into a
toaster. That?s why the smoke escaped. But the only way I
could have live is because my switch on the steering column was grounding
out onto the turn signal switch. So I got some new wire and made up
new with new spade ends and bullet connectors. OD functions
perfectly now. This time I was smart enough to test it before I
buttoned everything up.<br>
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The other thing I noticed about the OD is the switches on the shifter
allow the transmission to go into OD in 2<sup>nd</sup>, 3<sup>rd</sup>,
and 4<sup>th</sup>. I thought only J-type overdrives switched in
the 3 top gears. The tag on the OD doesn?t say A or J. It
just says Laycock De Normanville: Serial # 22/61753/003197, Patent GB
456007, USA 2097021, Canada 389847, France 806914. Is there
anything in that information that would tell if it was A or J? The
OD was not original to the car. The heritage report has it
imported into Canada, white, red interior, surrey top. So the OD
was added later in life. Can anybody tell me what I have here?<br>
<br>
Creig<br>
<a href="mailto:creig55@live.com";>creig55@live.com</a><br>
St. Louis, MO<br><br>
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