Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:23:19 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Not quite a backfire . . .
Comments: To: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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Thnx, Robt.

(Now watch -- sometime in the future, I, or someone, will probably mention
this engine behavior in reference to some darn thing. Some on the list --
folk who drive primarily on flatter terrain -- will question whether this
is normal. I will then wish I had saved this thread someplace, incl.
Dennis's excellent explanation. So to avoid that, I will post this on the
wiki under something like "Unusual Situations: cold engine on long
descents" I'm-a gonna ask Dennis for permission to quote his response to
this [see his post from yesterday].)

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR



On 8/17/2009 5:51 PM Robert Fisher wrote:

> --snip--
>
> Of course it would be helpful for someone else to do a long drop (20 to 30
> minutes) in cool temps using the engine for braking, i.e., foot off gas
> for like, 95%, of the time. 2nd gear on AT, for me, and report back on
> what their temp gauge says. Such a person would of course need to live
> someplace mountainous, and have nothing better to do.
>
> --snip--
>
> I just did this on my drive back from Mammoth, mostly engine braking down
> the Sherman grade. I too had the temps drop way down, into the white as I
> recall, but no other symptoms. However I started getting the low power,
> cough-cough bit while in Laughlin last week- just as my temp II sensor went
> out. I don't even know if there is one on a 1.9, but what you described
> sounded much like what just happened to me.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
>