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overdrive solenoid 200

posted by  muskox on  Thu Dec 4 04:59 CST 2003
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I have an 82 manual transmission so I am not sure whether your situation parallels mine. What I can say is that on mine the wires and solenoid are easily seen from the driver's side of the car at the aft end of the transmission. My solenoid is yellow in colour. I used to regularly pinch the wire end tabs if the overdrive started to act up. This was early on in my eleven year sojourn with this car. I have never replaced the solenoid, I might add.

Later on I had relay problems that were compounded with a fuse that kept blowing. As your other correspondent noted, the relay is easily found just to the left of the glover compartment box. When I replaced the relay, the overdrive became more reliable and, so far, it seems to be working as expected.

I don't see why you would have to drop the transmission to replace the solenoid but I would follow the advice already given and check the connections, etc., first.






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