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- From: zm@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Zafer Mehmood)
- Subject: Re: STUCK CARB, AIRBORNE! Wheel Came Off...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.225136.9133@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: My Brother Told Me To Post This
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- Organization: AT&T
- References: <1g04jtINN3k2@roche.csl.sri.com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:51:36 GMT
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- In article <1g04jtINN3k2@roche.csl.sri.com> lbrown@cisco.com (Lawrence Brown) writes:
- >
- >I was late for work, barreling down a country road at around 60mph.
- >About a 1/4 mile from the highway the road goes over a steep blind hill.
- >
- >I'm driving a '69 Chevy Impala, 350engine with 4-barrel carb, Auto, Power
- >Steering...
- [stuff deleted]
- > I floor the pedal. The 4-barrel carb opens wide and the engine roars. I start
- >to let off the gas about halfway up the hill and discover the throttle
- >is stuck wide open.
- >
- >Now, in hindsight the smart thing would have been to just turn off the engine.
- >(Ever try to steer a Chevy with the power steering turned off? Right.)
- >
- > [story about using brakes to stop car and breaking axle deleted]
- >
- Whenever I read stories about runaway cars with stuck throttle
- plate/cable or cruise mechanisms, I wonder why the transmission cannot
- be shifted into neutral to disengage the engine from the drive-train.
- Yes, the engine can over-rev causing damage but that's a cheap price
- to pay compared to the risk of collision and bodily injury. In a couple
- of automatics that I've tried, I was able to shift into neutral even while
- accelerating. Manual transmissions, on the other hand won't shift into
- neutral while accelerating (at least not easily), but then you can use
- the clutch to disengage the engine from the transmission.
-
- Aside from the driver panicking and not having the presence of mind,
- is there a reason why this can not be done? Am I missing something?
-
- Zafer
-