[Healeys] Question for Shop Owners / Restorers Only - OD Throttle

[philritten at aol.com]

All,

I'm not sure if I understood correctly what the best thing to do is for those of us (probably only me) that don't have the O/D relay.

Should I 
1) depress the clutch before flipping the switch (both in and out) as though I was going into another gear
2) lift off the accelerator before flipping the switch

Thanks,
Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: kentmclean at comcast.net
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 9:05 am
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Question for Shop Owners / Restorers Only - OD Throttle



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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