Revs Running Away From The Vehicle?

[Guest]

Any technical boffins still awake???

Just got home after a cold winter blast through Sydney. On the way home I, with 4th gear being selected, under full acceleration, the engine revs took off, as did the needle in the tachometer, but the actual speed of the vehicle remained steady!!!!

Thinking it was my imagination, tested it again, in third, forth and fifth...exact bloody same!!!!

In a nutshell whats going on with the car, how much is it going to cost and is it covered under warranty (Unichip and Injectors being the only mods)

Cheers

Darren

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  DARREN said:

Any technical boffins still awake???

Just got home after a cold winter blast through Sydney. On the way home I, with 4th gear being selected, under full acceleration, the engine revs took off, as did the needle in the tachometer, but the actual speed of the vehicle remained steady!!!!

Thinking it was my imagination, tested it again, in third, forth and fifth...exact bloody same!!!!

In a nutshell whats going on with the car, how much is it going to cost and is it covered under warranty (Unichip and Injectors being the only mods)

Cheers

Darren

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Hi mate with your mods dont think you will be coverd ,,How many ks on the clock if under 15000 return back to standerd &try that. If no luckits gona cost ya about 850 to 900 &that's no special clutch.CHEERS BB

[faygun]

sounds like you need a new clutch mate. take it easy or otherwise your clutch will go completely and u wont even be able to take off because the clutch wont be grabbing at all. that's what happened to me once in my last car.

[JimmyXR6T04]

yep.. sounds like the clutch mate. Mine started to do that.. but only when I gave it a full boot, and the revs went up a bit, but the car stayed the same. Worst was when I went to smash this car off the lights and the clutch just slipped and the car went no where... the smoke was impressive though.. from the clutch!

[Cro]

Clutch...same thing is happening here...

Need to give Mal Woods a call sometime this week, I'm sick of taking it easy...

[Guest]

Well the people have spoken,

Damn it, was planning on funnelling the $$$ into making it faster, not holding it together.

For the sake of....ermm, me, can someone explain the whats actually going within that specific area of the drivetrain...be it the bloody, performance robbing clutch.

Darren

[Fat-Tony]

with your engine making more power than stock the standard doenst have the clamping pressure and the face materials arnt up to the task of making transmitting that power to your gearbox hence the clutch slips. you will prob find that it happend on a nice crips cold morning because genrelly a turbo car will make more power at that time than any other. It happens in the higher gears as due to the fact that you are loading up the pressure on teh back end of the clutch moreso than in a lower gear.

[SHOCK]

Another one dead...when will you guys learn...go the autos

Sorry to hear Darren

[Guest]

Spot on,

Your right about the cool crisp mornings or evenings, day to day driving is generally fine.

Going to try and sneak this one in under warranty, since the service department is only just down stairs and the fact that my 4th into 5th gear synchros started playing up about 2000kms ago.

One other thing, I've hit 45000ks on the ute, and the little things are starting to show themselves, clutch, synchro, brake shudder, is this when one shouold expect to see all the goodness of the BA fall into a heap?

Darren

[Fat-Tony]

well if you have a 5 speed BA, the gearbox having problems speaks for themself and the clutch, well ford dont intend to put a good clutch in a car when they know from the factory it will hold under the power they give the motor and brake shudder, well I managed to root up my old mans BA in about 10000km due to my driving, aint happend to my BF yet and the service dept solution was to machine the rotors so they will prob do the same to your car. So dont think yoru car is going into a heap.

Edited 04/06/06 12:02 AM by Fattony