Today the heat subsided a bit and I decided to attack the latest tidbits on my car. One of the things I did was to remove the MAF translator to set it and then remounted it. The translator is mounted on the drivers side fenderwell. While remounting it I lost a nut, after searching a bit and not finding it I just figured it went into the crossmember and got another. Later I was setting the fuelpressure and descided to back the car up a bit to get more room. I left my shop light hanging from the hood and started to back it up a bit, the light cord got caught by the balancer for a split second, only enough to scuff the cord a bit. I stopped the car and moved the light out of the way. Then when I tried to back up again the car would go about 2 feet and stop like the tires where blocked. OK I put it in Nuetral and same thing 2 feet or so and stop. Hmmmm this is perplexing, I put it in drive and it would go foward, then reverse....2 feet and stop, nuetral...2 feet and stop. Ok now I'm getting pissed....not to mention I am nose in the garage.
So now friends are showing up and everyone has an idea of whats wrong
Disconnect power from the tranny (no change)
readjusted the quarter stick (no change)
Dropped the pan no (parts or metal)
Jacked up the rear and it works fine in the air...put it back on the ground 2 feet stop
So now we have 3 rednecks scatching heads and all agreeing this is the strangest behavior any have seen from a tranny and we should just pull it. (how many rednecks does it take to pull a tranny)
Just what I wanted to do..pull the freakin tranny....Well with a clearer head I got to thinking about this..how could it work in the air, and not on the ground?????? Then I remembered the nut...nah couldn't be..how could that little nut cause this...well easy enough to check jacked up the front end and spun the tire...quarter spin and stop, spun it the other way and out pops the nut.....
Some days it's just better to walk away
T
So now friends are showing up and everyone has an idea of whats wrong
Disconnect power from the tranny (no change)
readjusted the quarter stick (no change)
Dropped the pan no (parts or metal)
Jacked up the rear and it works fine in the air...put it back on the ground 2 feet stop
So now we have 3 rednecks scatching heads and all agreeing this is the strangest behavior any have seen from a tranny and we should just pull it. (how many rednecks does it take to pull a tranny)
Just what I wanted to do..pull the freakin tranny....Well with a clearer head I got to thinking about this..how could it work in the air, and not on the ground?????? Then I remembered the nut...nah couldn't be..how could that little nut cause this...well easy enough to check jacked up the front end and spun the tire...quarter spin and stop, spun it the other way and out pops the nut.....
Some days it's just better to walk away
T