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- From: vetter@mtu.edu (STEVEN J. VETTER)
- Subject: Re: Timing Belt on Civic Si.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.143349.15518@mtu.edu>
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
- References: <exuptr.470.0@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:33:49 GMT
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- exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.162730.2867@mtu.edu> vetter@mtu.edu (STEVEN J. VETTER) writes:
- >
- >
- >> If you have a manual tranny, you can engage the
- >> clutch quickly and reduce the beating the valves and piston`s take, if it's
- >> an automatic, it will take you longer to take it out of gear and the damage
- >> will most likely be greater.
- >
- >I would think the thing to do would be to shut the engine OFF immediately
- >(AND disengage the clutch if manual).
-
-
- If the timing belt breaks, the engine wont be running in order to be shut off!
- However, so long as the clutch is engaged or the car is in gear, the road will
- be turning the engine.
-
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