Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 16:29:33 +0100
Reply-To: Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Clive Smith <clive.harman-smith@NTLWORLD.COM>
Subject: Re: Fuel injectors?
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No, you could be moving moving, in fact one can drive a vehicle for ages
with a slipping clutch, only when its ability to transmit torque is less.
than the vehicles requirement for torque does it usually start to slip. e.g.
when it is hot, when you have slipped the clutch for a while holding on a
slope or against the handbrake, going uphill in a gear too high,
accelerating etc etc. As time passes it will start slipping earlier.
I was not saying that you have a slipping clutch, what I should have said
was - Do you know the synptons of a slipping, have you driven many vehicles
with these symptons and are you sure this isn't the very beginning of a
slipping start syndrome - from your symptons I doubt it, but they did just a
little like it, and I wouldn't have normally asked if I was sure that the
driver knew exactly what a slipping clutch can be like - and of course I
don't know that - for sure..
>>>the RPMS were getting up and I shifted, with only slight increase in
speed
> >> over time. Got home, parked for 15 minutes, went back out and
everything
> >> was back to normal.
If the revs were going up and you weren't accelarating in manual
transmission vehicle, either soemthing very broken or your clutch is
slipping - are you sure the revs are going up OUT OF PROPORTION to your road
speed - if so, your clutch is slipping - unless you can think of something
else, like an icy road...
Regards,
Clive
'88 Syncro Transporter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Walters" <debbwa@earthlink.net>
To: "Clive Smith" <clive.harman-smith@ntlworld.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: Fuel injectors?
> If my clutch was slipping, wouldn't I be revving the engine, but not
moving
> at all?
>
> deb
>
> on 9/7/02 8:09 PM, Clive Smith at clive.harman-smith@ntlworld.com wrote:
>
> > Sure your clutch is not slipping?
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Deborah Walters" <debbwa@EARTHLINK.NET>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 8:58 PM
> > Subject: Fuel injectors?
> >
> >
> >> Hey guys,
> >>
> >> I'm having a power problem with Gypsy - she sporatically has no "get up
> > and
> >> go," and it is worse when the AC is running. Yesterday when I was
driving
> >> home from work I was pulling out from traffic lights at a snail's pace,
> > but
> >> the RPMS were getting up and I shifted, with only slight increase in
speed
> >> over time. Got home, parked for 15 minutes, went back out and
everything
> >> was back to normal.
> >>
> >> Is this a fuel injector problem?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> deb
> >> '85 Westy "Gypsy"
> >> Orlando, FL
> >
>
>
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