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- From: Larry.Mc.Donald@ofa123.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: stuck carb, airborne
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 11:39:02
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- zm@cbnewsb.cb.att.com
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- (Zafer Mehmood)
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- > 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?
-
- Other than pieces of the block getting under the tires and
- puncturing them, no, no reason. A better solution that doesn't
- cause irrepairable engine damage is to just turn the car off. I
- had a Ford Maverick get it's throttle stuck on the freeway and I
- was able to get it off the freeway and to a parking lot by
- regulating it's speed by turning it on and off.
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- > Zafer
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- ... Larry.Mc.Donald, N6ZMB, Fullerton, California! <cough, cough>
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