Marcos Maniacs

Mine is a separate switch mounted on the gearlever below the knob. I'm
guessing all Essex powerplants have it this way. I do have a Triumph
transmission in the garage, but the gearlever comes straight up for a couple
of inches and then angles back at 45 degrees, as opposed to the straight up
gearlever currently in place. I'm not sure if there would be clearance
problems with the gearlever and transmission tunnel if I were able to modify
it to fit in the first place.
Dano

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	mark_saxby [mailto:Mark.Saxby@...] 
Sent:	Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:20 AM
To:	MarcosManiacs@yahoogroups.com
Subject:	[MarcosManiacs] Re: Overdrive switch

Dan,

Where is the overdrive switch now? On my car, it's a DASH rocker 
switch. Others I have seen have a little switch on the gearlever. 
I've always fancied fitting a Triumph gearknob mounted switch (as 
seen on the Dolomite Sprint saloon), which would seem a simple enough 
solution if you have the gear lever out and can drill it for the 
wiring.

At the moment, I'm toying with the idea of a 5 speed box and shelving 
my horrible 4 speed and overdrive. It seems the Sierra box should fit 
with little or no trouble, providing I can source a suitable 
bellhousing.

Cheers,

Mark

--- In MarcosManiacs@y..., Dan Orie <dorie@s...> wrote:
> 
> The overdrive switch location seems a tad strange and an 
afterthought. I
> wonder if the essex equipped Fords, TVR's etc. had the switch there 
also?
> What I am planning is to use the same setup on the steering column 
behind
> the headlight lever switch that the Triumphs used - which is 
basically a
> long additional lever behind the headlight switch that would engage 
the
> overdrive.  Since the Marcos used the exact same headlight and 
blinker
> stalks anyway, I'm not sure why they just didn't add the overdrive 
stalk
> there instead. In my opinion, it's a bit easier in the fact that 
you don't
> really have to take your hand off the wheel to engage it, and it 
seems more
> elegant. The only possible reason so far that I see why this 
wouldn't work
> is that the overdrive stalk could possible obstruct a portion of 
the vision
> of the tach or speedo - which it doesn't on the Triumphs. 
> Dano in Daytona



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