Re: [AMC-list] Testing an Overdrive Solenoid

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok Frank, I have the cover off and and the orange w/trace power wire is old and brittle with insulation missing in spots so I'll be replacing that anyway.  I see the sets of points and I'll clean them.  thanks,
Joe Fulton

--- On Sun, 10/18/09, Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] Testing an Overdrive Solenoid
> To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 10:24 AM
> You also need to take the "back"
> cover off the solenoid. There is a set of contact points in
> there that need to be cleaned and squared just like ignition
> points. IIRC those are ignition cut-out contact, would have
> to look at the schematic again to be sure. But they do need
> to be cleaned and squared. Do the same to the contact points
> in the governor cap. I've had ODs stop working simply
> because those points were burned! There are two types of
> governors -- a one-wire and a two-wire. Both are basically
> the same, the one-wire just ground through the trans case,
> the other wire on a two-wire is a ground. They can be
> interchanged, and I've had to run a ground wire from a
> governor cap screw to the body to reduce arcing at the
> points too. 

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