[DML] Re: Fw: First Outing With My DeLorean-STRANDED

["Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxxxxx>]

This is a symptom of low fluid. Especially cold. Are you sure the 
fluid level is ok? one half quart can make all the difference.

Harold McElraft - 3354


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "sweitzel_2000" <sweitzel@xxxx> 
wrote:
> David,
> 
> would a maladjusted vacuum modulator or low line pressure cause a 
> symptom like this:
> 
> Car drives normally. GC was rebuilt and all shift points are 
correct. 
> Fluid level is correct. Trans kicks down with rapid acceleration 
> during driving (passing gear) as it should. However, once in a 
very 
> great while, when accelerating away from a stop a tad quicker than 
> normal the trans will kind of slip for a half second then 
> seemingly "clunk" into first gear and pull away and shift normally 
> from then on out. If one accelerates away from a stop lightly 
(i.e., 
> not a 'jackrabbit' start) Trans starts in first and shift 
normally. 
> no clunk, no slip. On warmer days, the slip/clunk never happens.
> 
> Ideas?
> -sean
> 
> 
> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxx> 
> wrote:
> > If it was shifting "very clunky" it must have been that the 
vacuum
> > modulater was not working and the line pressure was not correctly
> > adjusted. Even so it is a stretch to conclude that was the cause 
of
> > the shaft failing. Maybe the shaft was not handled properly at 
some
> > point before it was ever installed or maybe it was not made or
> > heat-treated properly. You are lucky you got someone that was 
able 
> to
> > diagnose the problem correctly. Most of the time they do a 
complete
> > autopsy and in the course of a total rebuild they find and fix 
the
> > problems.
> > David Teitelbaum
> > vin 10757 
> >




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