- 1. [Mgs] MGB O/D (score: 1)
- Author: Malcolm Jeffcock <msjeffcock@eastlink.ca>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:11:22 -0300
- My B has overdrive and thankfully it is working fine. My question though may be simple but how does it actually work? I appreciate it is an "electric" overdrive but that electrical component must som
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- 2. Re: [Mgs] MGB O/D (score: 1)
- Author: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:31:08 +0100
- An overdrive is an entirely separate gearbox that bolts onto the back of the main gearbox. It has two ratios, when it is off the ratio is direct (speed out = speed in), when engaged the speed out is
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- 3. Re: [Mgs] MGB O/D (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Ewald" <richard.ewald@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:51:04 -0700
- An OD uses a planetary gear set. Look at the gears in Richard Gosling's In the center is a single gear called the sun. Around that are several gears called planets, and out side that is the ring or a
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- 4. Re: [Mgs] MGB O/D (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:31:55 +0100
- It's a bit like a 2-speed auto gearbox and is a bolt-on addition to the manual gearbox. The electrical solenoid closes a valve, which allows hydraulic pressure, derived from a pump on the overdrive u
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- 5. Re: [Mgs] MGB O/D (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Bates" <jello@ida.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:32:36 -0600 (MDT)
- We need to be careful about saying it's a bolt-on addition. One can not simply bolt an MGB overdrive unit onto an existing run of the mill non-OD gearbox. It takes a different shift mechanism, a diff
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- 6. Re: [Mgs] MGB O/D (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:59:03 +0100
- Nevertheless it does bolt on (and off) to the manual gearbox and can be changed independently, it is not an integral part of a 'special' manual box. PaulH. ___________________________________________
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