Re: Overdrive into a 62 mopar

[Dooner Funderburk <doonerfunderburk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steven,
I am wondering if the original pushbuttons can be used by just using the 
buttons alone, not using the park lever. My thought is to use the reverse 
button as park, the neutral button as reverse, the drive button as neutral, 
the second button as overdrive, and the first button as drive. I don't see 
any future need for me to drop it down past drive, as my car will be for 
cruising and not racing. I even thought about getting the buttons remarked 
with the right gear position on it, but I might just keep it as original so 
it would be hard for someone to drive my car unless they knew. I even 
thought the park lever could be a battery disconnect switch. So you would 
have to raise it up to start the car.
What are your thoughts on that? And if anyone else has any thought, ring'em 
on in please.

Dooner

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From: "Steven Charette" <stevec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 4:27 PM
To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Overdrive into a 62 mopar

> Doug,
> There are a couple ways to go - Gear Vendors makes a unit that will
> attach to a '66-up TorqueFlite and there is always the A-500/518.
>
>  The conversion does work with 1 cable, but with slightly increased
> button effort - the original pushbutton setup uses a lightweight cable 
> with
> the moving parts submerged in nice warm transmission fluid, where the
> conversion moves all the moving parts to the outside of the trans.
>
> You can also just use the parking brake and use R-N-D-2-1 without
> modifying the button assembly.  They drove pushbutton TF's from '56-'61 
> and
> just used the parking brake - no different than a stick car.
>
> SC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: beth [mailto:dickens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 9:07 PM
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Overdrive into a 62 mopar
>
>
>
> Has anyone tried to put an automatic overdrive into our cars. I'm
> considering doing this behind my 318 but would like to keep the 
> pushbuttons.
>
>  I know the button assembly can be modified but does it use 1 cable to 
> work
> the trans lever with the buttons/park lever or both.
>
>  Doug B.
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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