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

glemon at neb.rr.com glemon at neb.rr.com
Thu Jul 17 10:50:05 MDT 2008


Alan, why on the gas when going into O/D, I thought it was let up on the gas a little to let the O/D ratio and engine speed match more closely.  I have always gotten the smoothest engagement into overdrive that way.  Agree that you should give it a little gas when going out of O/D

Greg Lemon
  
---- Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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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