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Re: Fwd: Jumping out of overdrive is back!

To: Simonlachlan@aol.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: Jumping out of overdrive is back!
From: Dave & Marlene <rusd@velocitus.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 01:13:11 -0600
Hi Simon,

Did you lose all of the info or just forgot?
Start here:
http://www.team.net/html_arc/healeys/200405/msg00436.html
http://www.team.net/html_arc/healeys/200405/msg00458.html
http://www.team.net/html_arc/healeys/200405/msg00464.html

You can review the whole topic by searching here:
http://www.team.net/html_arc/healeys/200405/

Dave Russell
BN2


Simonlachlan@aol.com wrote:
> I'm trying this again in view of the past few days' silence.....
> 
> You will recall my email concerning my BT7's new habit of jumping out of  
> overdrive...
> 
> So, the symptoms
> If I am driving along at about  1,900revs with my car in overdrive/4th, 
> she'll jump out of overdrive if I  raise the revs/speed with the accelerator.
> If I then decelerate back to  1,900 (+/-) she'll pop back into overdrive."
> The car has been off the road while some work was done on the  instruments, 
> so i could not provide feedback re. the many and excellent mails  I received. 
> So it was circumstance, not idleness....
> Well, I've done the obvious first thing and bridged the throttle  switch on 
> the bulkhead. The symptoms vanish. Where would I go now...? ....must  the 
>fault 
> be in the throttle switch? First logic says yes, but how can the  throttle 
> switch disengage the unit while the relay is working?
> But, if the relay isn't working, how does it ever switch on in the first  
> place?????????
> Simon.





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