Electronic Logic overdrive switching device with night dim facility. This extra facility dims the indicator lamp when side lamps are switched on. Negative earth cars. This clever device allows for fast and sequential overdrive operation. Overdrive cannot be left in inadvertently, reducing strain on the overdrive.

When changing gear with the overdrive left engaged, overdrive drops out automatically. Fits all electrically operated overdrives.

In this short video our customer Hamish explains how he uses this device HERE

Eminent race and Rally driver, Jean Jacques Thuner was suitably impressed when he drove the works TR4 registered  6VC back in 1999. with our logic device fitted. You can read that story HERE.

Neil Revington reports that at his first outing to the Mdina GP in Malta, a fellow competitor questioned after practice if I had a sequential gearbox in my TR5! Our logic device can even impress onlookers. You can watch the You Tube video  via the icon below. Watch out for the light on the dash inside the rim of the steering wheel coinciding with overdrive engagement. 

 

A momentary operation switch rather than the standard on/off switch operates the logic device.
Revington TR have several solutions. We can supply TR4-6 owners with a modified momentary column mounted switch RTR8207K, with the stalk extended to match the length of the original  switch.
We have a range of dash mounted momentary operation switches too which will suit TR2-3B and even TR4-6 should a dash mounted switch be acceptable.
A lamp to indicate the state of the overdrive will be needed too. CR and CF series TR6's with J type overdrives do hot have a relay fitted. A relay is essential to drive the solenoid when a logic device is used. See below

This device can be used on all electrically operated overdrives where inhibitor switches are employed on the gearbox to prevent the overdrive operating in certain low gears and reverse.
Where the car is not fitted with an existing relay to operate the overdrive solenoid such as J type TR6 s, an additional relay must be fitted, full instructions for which are to be found in the kit.

Logic overdrive devices: A note on the subject from Neil Revington

I have read with some amusement in magazines and on forums how owners of cars with electrically operated overdrives have wrestled with the concept of how to design and make such a device work, and seemingly making it all sound desperately difficult.

 

The History

 

What is the background? Well, when Revington TR was called TR Spares Southwest in 1982 ish, I designed a device to allow me to change gear and overdrive at the same time specifically with racing in mind but obviously I found that the device was a fantastic improvement on all cars both road and competition. I called this device a' Logic Overdrive device' (which has since become the generally accepted name for these devices)

Initially the device was constructed of basic electrics but has since been redesigned and is now fully electronic.
So how does it operate and how do you fit it? There is no need to remove the gearbox tunnel, the box of tricks and all the other fittings that come in the kit (which comes with full instructions), is wired into the existing wiring from the gearbox tunnel upwards to the switch and original relay (pre CF CR TR6 cars). A flick switch is used to operate the system and in the case of TR4-6 the original switch can be modified to become a flick switch (Meaning momentary operation with self-return). The modus operandi is this: Whatever gear or state of overdrive the car is in when the ignition is turned off, the overdrive will be off when you turn on the ignition again. When overdrive is required (in an overdrive enabled gear of course), flick the switch. When a non-overdrive gear is required from an overdrive gear, flick the switch. If a fast change is required from say 2nd overdrive to non -overdrive 3rd, just move the gear lever to 3rd and the logic device will disengage overdrive for you as you pass through the gear shift gate. This applies to any gear change up or down the gearbox where the start point was an overdrive gear.

We recommend a light on the dash to identify the overdrive state. And it is worth noting that both negative and positive earth devices are available.

Two types of kits are available RTR1001K which is a basic unit suitable for both positive and negative earth and RTR1296NK, RTR1296PK which provide a facility to dim the indicator lamp independently for both day and night. The 'N' and the 'P' in these part numbers indicates negative and positive earth variants.

That is the history and I can confirm these units have been sold by their thousands and continue to work faultlessly in many applications (not just TR's) around the world, so now there is no need to go searching for components to build a device that may or may not work, it has all be designed for you and been field tested in thousands of cars for the last 30 years.

J. Neil Revington, RevingtonTR Dec 2011

This part is listed on the following pages of the website, where further information and background reading may be found.

Engine, Transmission, wheels/Tyres and Heating/Cooling » LOGIC OVERDRIVE DEVICES
Our TRs and workshop activity » Electrical Systems and Instruments

Readers' Drives » Dashboard area
Readers' Drives » Engine, Transmission including Annular release
Readers' Drives » Engine and Transmission


David from Weston Super Mare has told us how good he feels this simple kit is: - "I put one on my TR a few months ago and wish I'd done it years ago, great bit of kit. That dreaded second gear to overdrive third is a thing of the past, and if you are in overdrive fourth and want a bit of power then you change down straight into direct third."