overdrive.....interesting ride

[toolbelt]

Thanks in advance,

I'm new to overDrive and jeep (96 GCL). Two days ago I was driving
up a very steep incline/hill and as I'm driving up it was an interesting ride.

If you've ever had your catalytic converter go bad and attempt to climb even an incline less steep, the ride was very similar.

Seemed there wasn't enough power to pull the gc up the hill and I wondered if I was gonna make it.

I made it to the top, but the ride up was as if the accelerator was continuously being pressed and released, pressed and released, etc.......

My question is should I have had the overDrive button depressed (green light ON)......because the light was off.

Reading the manual (and I'm going by memory), it says green light on locks out OD.

Thanks,
Toolbelt

[jdennis]

Depressing it would have kicked it off and put you down into 3rd gear. It wouldn't definantly go up the hill better, but in my '96 when I use it when I'm losing power on an incline it drops to 3rd fine, but then drops right down into 2nd, then doesn't want to come back into 3rd until the RPM's are quite high, so I usually don't turn it off much.

It is just like downshifting one gear with a standard trans so you will have more power/less speed.