Hello everyone, Need a bit of help here. While exercisng the Peerless the other day, I shifted into 3rd and a second or so later it upshifted again AUTOMATICALLY ! Did the same thing in 4th. What the @#@# is going on here.
Never did this before.
Now I know some cars had the overdrive .....,but is it on 3rd AND 4th ???? And how does it work? Maybe I activated it some how.......????
Anyway... I know one of you more knowledgable chaps out there will know if my car ihas overdrive, a problem or is simply POSSESSED.
When you say shifted....when you are changing into third did it then "change note" and the revs drop another 500 or so. If yes then you have overdrive and it's not operating properly.
You should have a switch on the dash board, usually on the outer edge of the pod or outer dash frame....people tended to move them around quite allot. Anywho if you find a switch that you dont know what it does (good job your not Mr Bush) switch it on!!.
To test weather you have overdrive. Sit in your car in a very quiet place so you can hear the slightest noise. Turn on your ignition but dont start the engine. Put the car into 4th gear. Flick the "switch of the unknown" on. If you hear down in the transmission tunnel near your lower thigh a click or clunk then you have overdrive. Moving on..... Try putting the car in 3rd and do the same Then second...yes second because when they left the factory with this very useful option it was set up on 2nd 3rd and 4th. Switch off. So then you have found itbut its faulty or intermittentusually its the solenoid switch fitted to the side of the overdrive unit that is playing up/burnt out/out of adjustment/f%*+£d. If so read a lot of books or take to a specialist.
If you dont get a click or a clunk then that doesnt mean you havent got an overdrive...it might just be faulty. SO next you jack the car up or go to your local tyre shop and CAREFULLY drive it up on their ramp...for beer tokens..and look underneath. Follow the prop shaft from the diff at the back towards the gearbox. If it meets a large aluminium casting with a large brass nut in the centre of the bottom face about a one and half foot from the back of the engine then you have overdrive. if you follow it along and you find a tapered aluminium casting that gets bigger as you get towards the gearbox then that is a standard tail housing, which you remove to fit an overdrive.......but it's not that easy...well it wouldnt be would it!! so read even more books or take to a specialist.
and it's not operating properly.
