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

[Alan Seigrist]

Phil -

You got it backwards, on or off you should always have your foot on
the gas.  Depress the clutch if situation does not allow you to be
accelerating..

Alan



On 7/17/08, philritten at aol.com <philritten at aol.com> wrote:
> 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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