[Healeys] Overdrive Relay

[David Porter]

Bosch 0 332 204 150 if one doesn't care about originality...
Dave
PS A copy of the Automotive Handbook by Bosch will explain all those odd 
picto-grams.. and practically everything else too...
On 9/2/2014 5:56 AM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> If the relay is intermittent or fully TU it's probably burnt points. 
> It's possible to carefully open up the relay, clean up the points with 
> a point file--remember to clean them after filing with contact 
> cleaner--then close them up again.  You could get thousands of miles 
> off a repaired relay.
>
> Bob
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> On 9/2/2014 2:46 AM, Per Schoerner wrote:
>> Hi
>> It's a matter of if you want it to look original or not I think. The 
>> overdrive relay is just a relay, I can buy a relay at my local shop 
>> here for #3 and it will do the job just fine. But it doesn't look 
>> original. Also, there are different relays in early cars. The relays 
>> for the BJ8 are much cheaper, possibly the same as the Jaguar relays 
>> you refer to.
>> If you have the original, not working, relay you can rebuild it by 
>> putting a new modern relay for #3 inside it and it will look very 
>> original.
>>
>> Per
>>
>> Michael MacLean skrev den 2014-09-02 00:01:
>>> Can someone tell me why the overdrive relay costs $189 at Moss, only 
>>> $44 two places on Ebay and only $25 at Victoria British?  When I 
>>> look up the same relay on the Holden site, they say it is a 12V 
>>> normally open all purpose relay that was used on Jaguars for the 
>>> horns.  They sell it for 38.50 pounds.  I suppose it will work for 
>>> the overdrive, but there has to be something going on with such a 
>>> big price difference at Moss.  And what the heck is Victoria British 
>>> selling for $25?
>>> Mike MacLean
>>> 56 BN2
>>> 60 AN5
>>> _______________________________________________
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