Car dieing additinal info.

[Ward]

Sure sounds like a TCC problem, The clutch is constructed like an odl style
manual xmish clutch so it sure woud cause a stall if locke or draging, if
this is the case the MAP values should be higher than normal, indicating a
high load.

Sure points out the value of the scan data over subjective observations.

Ward

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 08:41:51 -0500 (CDT), Roger Heflin wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Here is what it did this morning (I did get it recorded on diacom, so
> I will need to look at things very carefully tonight).
> 
> It appeared that either the TCC failed to unlock or that the car
> failed to downshift on acceleration out of a curve.   The engine
> lugged at <2000rpm, with a TPS of over 60%, so it should have easily
> have downshifted/unlocked  I had noticed what I thought was similar
> events in the recent past, but I had not been sure what I saw.
> 
> The IAC appears to have been somewhat lazy, cleaning the old one may
> have helped the situation, putting the new one in did seem to help,
> though it still dies when I put it in gear, which may point to the TCC
> having some problem or one of the clutch packs causing extra drag on
> the engine.   This happened after I was racing so I may have fired the
> tranny.  And the tranny is the original one and has 123k miles.
> 
> 			Roger
> 





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