<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">stuck in overdrive?.</span></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text';"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">If so - jack the car up & support </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text';"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">it correctly. Ie so you don't kill yourself.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text';"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Get your knockoff hammer, and get underneath.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text';"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Hit the steel sandwich plate in the centre area of the alloy overdrive body a few times with your knockoff hammer. Sharp raps rather than belting - you can't get a big swing anyway, and you don't need one.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text';"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">Now take it down off the ramps/ jacks/ stands, and go for a drive & see if you can select overdrive now (or more correctly, unselect overdrive) </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text';"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">The overdrive springs sometimes get stuck - its the springs that release it. The solenoid selects under hydrolic pressure -springs release. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: '.SF UI Text';"><span style="font-family: '.SFUIText'; font-size: 17pt;">a Healey locked in overdrive is impossible to push backwards </span></p><br><br></div><div><br>On 26 Apr 2018, at 2:34 pm, healeymanjim <<a href="mailto:healeymanjim@hansencc.net">healeymanjim@hansencc.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>my overdrive is always engaged. i checked the dash switch and it is good. i am assuming the relay is the problem. have </span><br><span>cleaned it up and sanded the points but no joy. anything else it might be?</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Support <a href="http://Team.Net">Team.Net</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a></span><br><span>Suggested annual donation $12.75</span><br><span></span><br><span>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys">http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys</a></span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys@autox.team.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/austin.healey@gmail.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/austin.healey@gmail.com</a></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>