I ve left a few emails and a phone message over the past three weeks and can t get a response. On Thu May 6th, 2010 5:15 PM EDT rob@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >Ahhh yes the dreaded empty tank syndrome that can fool the best of us! That >can happen when you're using mileage conversion methods (fuzzy math?) >instead of a working fuel gauge. > >Peter's description of the symptoms led me to think it was more likely an >engine issue as it's not often an auto transmission causes an engine to >stall. When I started the car the pump immediately gurgled with an obvious >fuel air mixture more befitting the combustion chamber than the fuel tank. I >didn't want to overlook anything however so I attempted to drive down the >block a ways. Not a good idea as I almost didn't make it back to the house! >The vibrating shifter was nothing more than the driveline jerking from a >severe lack of fuel (a human analogy would be you'd be jerking too if your >lungs were starving for air!) and the pump noise tends to transfer through >the frame tunnel so it can be misleading as to its origin. > >I'm glad Peter posted before me as I didn't want the collective DML brain >trust theorizing for long on the most obscure possibilities imaginable over >a case of "empty tank syndrome". To add a car related spin on the old adage >"when all else fails read the directions" or check the gas gauge! All is >well that ends well and I hope Peter has a "Jerry Jug" for some gas cause >that car isn't making it to no gas station.no Sireee! > > > >Rob Grady, > > > >P.J.Grady Inc. > > > > _____ > >From: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >jtrealtywebspannet >Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:45 AM >To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [DML] Re: automatic transmission? > > > > > >The pump noise would come from the front of the car, the transmission is >behind the driver. The pump noise would only happen when the fuel tank is >low. You might also have a problem in the fuel tank with the pick-up hose. >it could be partially kinked or leaky and it either can't get enough fuel to >the pump or it sucks air. Glad it worked out to be something simple but the >lesson here is to have Rob fix your fuel gauge and check out the pick-up >hose and baffle in the tank. The "slipping" you felt was the engine bucking >when it didn't get enough fuel, not the transmission slipping. You are >really lucky you are close to Rob and he could make a "house call"!!!!!! >David Teitelbaum > >--- In dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com, >"Cameron, Peter" <cameron@...> wrote: >> >> Rob Grady was out east here on Long Island today, stopped by the house to >investigate the 'transmission' problem. I wasn't home, but rather over on >Shelter Island, bike riding with a friend. >> >> We were at lunch when Rob called, with good news and bad news. The good >news was that I didn't have a transmission problem. The bad news was how >silly I felt when he mentioned that my gas gauge isn't working. >> >> Yes, my gas gauge. Yes, it is broken. I use the odometer, top off the tank >around 200 miles on the trip meter. So either I didn't fill it full last >time, or the trip meter got reset. >> >> When one decelerates the gas in the tank moves forward, exposing the >pickup, and the engine stalls, while at the same time the fuel pump makes a >cavitation sound that could conceivably be interpreted as coming from the >transmission. >> >> Really. >> >> Thank you, Rob. >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com on >behalf of jtrealtywebspannet >> Sent: Tue 5/4/2010 7:06 PM >> To: dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com >> Subject: [DML] Re: automatic transmission? >> >> >> >> You should do or have done a line pressure check. I would also check all >of the external adjustments. If that didn't help then raise the car and with >the wheels off the ground and the motor running in gear, carefully go under >the car looking for the source of the noise. A partially plugged up filter >can "starve" the fluid pump causing cavitation making a noise. >> David Teitelbaum >> >> --- In dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com, >"Cameron, Peter" <cameron@> wrote: >> > >> > I'm getting a noise from the Timachne, a new noise, that has me worried. >I've been driving it regularly since the snow went away, but just local >stuff around home. I drove it work on Friday, ~25 miles each way. On the way >home, and near home, I had to slow down for a car making a turn. There was >an odd sort of vibrating sound that seemed to come from the back of the car, >and the engine stalled. 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