You won't ned a light if you just fit the awitch so that DOWN is out of
overdrive and UP is in. As you are ripping along just left your fingers
fall around the switch under the gear shift knob and you'll know instantly
what gear you are in.
----- Original Message -----
From: <WEmery7451@aol.com>
To: <cartravel@pobox.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: Overdrive Wiring or Not
> A few Overdrive Wiring schemes have been described which incorporate some
> safety features, and maybe I should consider some of them.
>
> All I have ever done, or thought of, or seen others do was to wire the OD
> solenoid directly to an On/Off switch with a big red idiot light mounted
to
> the dash to tell me when I was in Overdrive. The switch is mounted under
the
> gear shift knob, and can be throw forward to engage Overdrive and pulled
back
> to disengage Overdrive. The corner workers use to bitch about a big red
> light going on and off while I was going around the track. You have to
lift
> your foot off of the accelerator while shifting into Overdrive.
>
> Make sure that the red light is out if you want to back up and not lit
while
> in first gear. For years, I used a gear shift knob for the split shift
> transmissions on trucks, and there was a slide switch on the side of the
> knob. When this switch finally failed and I couldn't find another one, I
> took Ted Shoemaker's advice of mounting a toggle on/off switch on a plate
> jammed under the gear shift knob.
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