[Healeys] overdrive questions

[David Porter]

Mike,
 I think he is talking about the version where the operating lever is
enclosed in a second outer cover.. A 1/4 inch of oil in there is quite
common in my experience. He will have to remove the loaded cover to replace
the o-ring on the operating shaft...
dave

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-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Michael Salter
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 12:38 PM
To: warthodson at aol.com
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] overdrive questions

The only time I've seen that much oil in the solenoid cover was after a
gearbox had been stored on its tail end with oil in it. My guess is that
there is no seal in there at all.
As I recall removing the housing involves decompressing the accumulator
spring and then re compressing it during reassembly. Be sure to undo the
long bolts progressively to unload the spring during removal of the housing.

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:07 PM, <warthodson at aol.com> wrote:

> I recently removed the cover on the side of the overdrive to adjust the
> solenoid lever & found about 1/4" of oil inside the housing. I presume it
> is
> leaking past the o-ring on the shaft. The overdrive was rebuilt about
three
> years ago & this is the first time I have looked inside the cover. Do you
> think this is a normal amount of leakage or while I have the tunnel off
> should
> I remove the solenoid housing & replace the o-ring? It appears that the
> solenoid housing can be removed with the OD in place.
> Gary Hodson
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