Date:         Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:32:18 -0700
Reply-To:     DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
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From:         DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Transmission slipping?
Comments: To: Eric Spletzer <eric@SENIORNET.ORG>
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Marla has an automatic trans. (it has no clutch disc).

Dave

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>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?

--
Dave Carpenter

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke