On one of the Nevada to Texas trips in my son's Stude wagon we lost the OD solenoid in Vegas. The drive to Kingman was 50 -55 mph. The Stude rear end gear set was 4.27 to 1. We found a young guy with a shop in Kingman who knew nothing about Borg ODs but asked," Does it come apart?" I said the cover comes off. He said," I can fix it." When we took it apart we found a basic fuse-able link. He re-soldered it and we were on the road. I later learned that most failed OD solenoids have simply melted this link. Sadly thousands where thrown away instead of getting a 5 minute fix. A bad seal causes a sticky dirty solenoid to draw enough current to blow the fuse. When a higher amp fuse is used the link melts. I wonder if the guy in Kingman could be found and if he would be interested in offering this service. He was willing that day to rewind both coils.
