Dunno 'bout the oil or the tranny fluid, but two weeks ago I was experiencing the same slipping thing. So being the irresponsible fool I can sometimes be I did what any other irresponsible fool would do. I ignored it, until it got worse and worse and worse on the way uphill to Yosemite. Well, long story short, two days later the clutch came in to the local auto parts store (40 miles away), I got a ride there, installed it and I made it home. (Never made it to Yosemite though, at least not that weekend.) Moral of story. It's your clutch. Don't ignore it. Oh - and I've heard oil on your clutch can cause the same slipping problem and the heat from the high revving can then wear your clutch out. Any way you slice it, it sucks. -eric ---------------------- '85 GL Camper (Moby) San Francisco, CA On 9/19/02 5:07 PM, "Marla Stelk" <mjstelk@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: > being so low on fluid. Maybe its just as much of a problem if oil flew into > the transmission from the blow over leak problem. (Dennis if you're reading > this you'll understand my ramblings the best!). My tachometer is also very > wacky - sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Read in the archives > that these symptoms might be related to the hall sender (which was broken at > the arm into the distributor when I bought it and I repaired it carefully with > JB Weld as per archive recommendations). Any ideas volks or tests I should do > or have done to narrow done the problem? |
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