Re: Continuing on the Overdrive

Posted by John Harley On 2009/8/26 17:45:39

JIm

I recently took a long (400 mile) drive with my car ( 1950 Eight w/ R11). After about 100 miles, my generator quit charging so I was running on the battery. I continued until about a half hour after dark when I REALLY ran the battery down. The car ran fine, but after about 2 hours it started jumping in and out of overdrive, with no apparent pattern . If I slowed down about 15 mph it would re-engage.

This has not happened since I had the charging system fixed. The OD seems to to take a lot of juice. Check the voltage of your battery and the output of your generator

Regards


John Harley