[Healeys] Fw: Overdrive

[Alan Seigrist]

Mike -

Just to clarify the Triumphs used the same "A type" OD as the Healey, and
the Jag XK 140s and 150s.  The only reason why Triumph didn't put the
throttle switch on their cars was that Triumph was the cheapest car of the
lot and they left the switch off to cut corners and substituted that with
instructions for specified use in the manual.

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:15 PM, mike brooks <hypercubic at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> It's a 4-speed. By the way the O/D on the TriumphB IS a different model - A
> type rather than J type from memory. For the Triumph, the thing about
> roadspeeds below 30mph is actually in the manual somewhere. So it looks
> like
> the O/D in the Healeys is different.B  I think the hydraulic pressure in my
> BN2 O/D is a little low, because it is very influenced by oil viscosity.
> But
> it works fine with 90 gearbox oil (never drops out when I need it) so I
> will
> leave well alone.
> B
> Thanks to you both for the input
> B
> Mike