When it rains it pours.
Wife calls me today "having a good day?"
Apparently she'd gone to the mall to get me a birthday present and when she
came out and put the pickup in gear nothing happens. Then she notices the pool
of red fluid underneith.
Its only got 196,000 miles, you can't get quality these days eh?
I *think* its the gasket thats failed but I won't know for awhile, she's got
AAA so they're towing it here. The trans fluid was changed in '06, maybe 10,000
miles on it but they did the full flush thing so maybe, just maybe the pan
gasket let go and tomorrow I can crawl under there (in the driveway, in the
snow, on a tarp) and replace that and the filter and get it going again.
Otherwise maybe I can get a good used trans...
-Curt
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> There are alternators that can charge like mad at idle. They are found in
> fire equipment, police vehicles and ambulances among others.
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Yeah, my Crown Vic Police Interceptor has one. Actually, the alternator
is only half the story -- the ECU is also programmed to idle higher when
the transmission is in gear, to provide better charging from the alternator.
There are tradeoffs, which is why every car isn't set up that way. One
of them is that you end up with a lot of rotating mass driven by a very
small pulley, to step up the speed at idle. Full-throttle downshifts
tend to cause the belt to chirp as the engine speed drops faster than
the alternator can slow down. Also, the higher idle speed means you
have to use more brake pressure to keep the car stopped at lights.
