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- From: bob1@cos.com (Bob Blackshaw)
- Subject: Re: STUCK CARB, AIRBORNE! Wheel Came Off...
- Message-ID: <bob1.725145534@cos>
- Keywords: My Brother Told Me To Post This
- Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
- References: <1g04jtINN3k2@roche.csl.sri.com> <1992Dec21.225136.9133@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:18:54 GMT
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- In <1992Dec21.225136.9133@cbfsb.cb.att.com> zm@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (Zafer Mehmood) writes:
-
- >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.)
-
- But unless you shift to neutral, the engine would still be turning over
- and so would the power steering pump. BTW, yes I have and its sort of
- like leading an elephant around.
-
- >>
- >> [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.
-
- You can do a lot of unique things if you think of it in time. A friend
- came over the top of a local hill one day only to see a train going
- over the crossing below. Hit the brakes and they failed, so he threw
- the auto tranny into reverse and hit the gas. Stopped the car, saved
- his life, blew the tranny. He thought it was a good deal.
-
- >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
-
- Bob.
-
-