[Healeys] O/D relay repair

[Pieter and Linda]

Clever fix Alex. $200 for  new one?? I am pretty sure the relay is a  
SRB111 and you can get them from www.holden.co.uk for 25pounds and  
even cheaper from Stafford Vehicle Components. Mind you, your repair  
is probably quicker than the post and cheaper as well.
cheers
Pieter
On 07/04/2010, at 4:05 AM, Alex wrote:

> The overdrive on my trusty BT7 decided to act up the other day,  
> dropping the
> O/D in and out. After a bit of troubleshooting with a voltmeter, I
> determined that the O/D relay was defective. But---yuk--$200 for a
> replacement! No way, Jose.
>
> I pulled the Lucas relay from the car and opened it up on the bench.  
> This is
> very easy to do; just peel back the tabs. Sure enough, the contacts  
> were
> almost totally disintegrated, and the coil was open.
>
> So, I drilled out the retaining rivet and discarded the remains of the
> original innards. I then cleaned up the enclosure and buffed clean the
> external screw contacts.
>
> Next I located a miniature 12V 30A relay (the one I scrounged was  
> from a
> BMW). These mini automotive relays are quite common.
>
> I removed the case from the mini relay, in order to make it smaller.  
> I then
> lined the innards of the original enclosure with electrical  
> insulating paper
> (often called fish paper), and installed the new relay inside the  
> original
> Lucas enclosure, holding it in place with a large locknut-type solder
> terminal that's affixed to the W2 terminal.
>
> The new relay works like a champ, pulling in my solenoid nicely.   
> Back in
> business for less than $5.
>
> == Alex in Maine
>     "The Blue Mainie," 1960 Austin Healey 3000 BT7
>     "Conkling," 1946 MG TC #1321
>     Former owner 1957 A-H 100-6, 1967 A-H BJ8,
>     1965 MG Midget
>     http://home.roadrunner.com/~alexmm
>
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