500 mile road trip with OVERDRIVE!!

[Botietruck]

Originally Posted by CG

So you brought along a chase vehicle "just in case" huh?

CG, I was bound and determined to make that overdrive work, and only I and the Good Lord knows what it cost to make it happen. With the problems I had getting that o/d functional, I didn't know what to expect. I have to say, it worked like a dream. After you shift into third gear, at what ever speed you desire, lift your foot off the accelerator just a tad, she shifts into o/d, the rpm's drop, and that 250 is singing the sweetest song you've ever heard. When I started up a steep incline, I pushed the pedal down (to throttle wide open) and it shifts out of o/d (at that time you're back in 3rd gear) until you reach the top or let off the pedal just a bit and it shifts right back in to o/d.
If you want to eliminate the o/d altogether, just pull the o/d cable handle out and you're back into conventional drive.
It's really fun to play with, but I could see where you could rip one out with a V-8 if you dogged it alot. But these units were not made for hot rodding.