Hmm, I got a callthis afternoon from a felow who has an overdrive gearbox
out of the car. He wondered if he could hook up a motor of some sort to the
input shaft of the gearbox, spin the thing at a decent RPM, and see if
moving the lever got the OD to engage and disengage. Never having done it
before, I had no real advice to give him. Have any of you folks tried
something like this?
The caller sounds quite a bit more familiar with cars than the fellow I
talked to the other day from one of the other shops down by mine. I'm
not sure, since his english was not that good, but I got the impression he
drove his '82 Toyota around with no oil in it for a while. He was wondering
if he took out the plugs, sprayed some WD-40 down the holes and put his
ratchet on the crank pulley, would his motor be able to turn again. He he.
mjb.
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