I am getting ready to install the 3 speed with OD and thought I would check out the solenoid by attaching a hot wire to it. Well it moves, but only moves about 1/16 of an inch.  How far is it suppose to move?

tom in iowa

54 Merc wagon

54 sunvalley

Someone else can chime in here but without actually taking a ‘good’ solenoid and testing it, I’m going to say at least a ¼ inch of travel and 3/8” sounds better.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

YUP

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Iowa,

IF I recall correctly, about 3/8" sounds right.

Regards,   JLB

55 Ford Crown Victoria Steel Top

More importantly, how far does it move against the kind of mechanical resistance it encounters when installed? I had to build a special bench-test jig for 6V solenoids in order to select ones that would perform reliably in actual service. I also suspect a lot of NOS units are floating around that were originally defective, but merely got returned to the shelf instead of the manufacturer when they wouldn't work properly.

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

Iowa,

It should be added that (at least the ones on which I have worked) the pall out of the solenoid is spring-loaded so that it can "spring" into the next available notch when rotating.

Regards,   JLB

55 Ford Crown Victoria Steel Top

By "rotating", I mean the geartrain rotating.   JLB

55 Ford Crown Victoria Steel Top