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RE: TR3 Overdrive Switch - Up or Down?

To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: TR3 Overdrive Switch - Up or Down?
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:53:51 -0700
>      My old OD switch was finnicky so I decided to replace it with the TRF
> repro OD switch. With the old OD switch, up was OD and down was off. With the
> new switch down is OD and up is off. I tried reversing the wires, but it
> remains the same. I think that the switch only mounts one way as well.
>      Is this the right way (down = OD)? Seems backwards to me. Maybe I have to
> pull the trans tunnel (groan...) and reverse wires on the switches or
> something.
>      Can someone help me out here?

I had the same problem ... turns out that "down for OD" is correct and my switch
has been upside down all these years.  When I disassembled the old switch, I
found it had the mounting tube upside down relative to the new switch (thus
making the entire switch body upside down when the tube was installed into the
dash).  I could have done the same thing to the new switch, but I found I could
unsolder one of the wires and solder it to the other contact instead.  I opted
to move the wire.

Randall




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