• Hi Guest!
    If you appreciate British Car Forum and our 25 years of supporting British car enthusiasts with technical and anicdotal information, collected from our thousands of great members, please support us with a low-cost subscription. You can become a supporting member for less than the dues of most car clubs.

    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

Overdrive Pressure

pan

Jedi Warrior
Country flag
Offline
I have recently solved an overdrive problem and would appreciate a comment from the experts!
I needed to replace the Accumulator so ordered parts from a trusted UK supplier. The parts arrived promptly but had to be modified to make the O/D operate. My Healey is a 1954 BN1 which needed two o-rings on the accululator housing. I was advised by the supplier that the replacement parts had only one o-ring groove as the second o-ring was deleted by BMC later in the production run because it was redundant. My overdrive would not raise any pressure until a second groove was machined and the unit re-assembled with two o-rings fitted. Now it works perfectly as has excellent pressure readings.
 
Pan, when you post a message, please don't check the "List as Event" checkbox (unless of course you are posting about an evet and want it listed in the event calander).
Basil
 
Sorry Basil,I am new at this. I didn't realise I had done that. Even at 55 years there is still stuff to learn!
 
Back
Top