[Healeys] Question for Shop Owners / Restorers Only - OD Throttle
kentmclean at comcast.net
kentmclean at comcast.net
Wed Jul 16 10:05:12 MDT 2008
Bob Spidell wrote:
> re:
> "On that 100/6, if revs dropped too low, it would switch out of OD and into the
> straight gear, like an automatic"
>
> That's not what the O/D throttle ("kickdown") switch is supposed to do. Sounds
> like that car had a marginal/weak oil pump in the O/D.
That's too bad. I rather liked it. IIRC, when you brought the revs back up
and then let off the gas, the OD would kick back in.
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Kent McLean
'59 100 BN2
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