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- From: tpickett@auspex.com (Tom Pickett)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: SHO Problems
- Message-ID: <16645@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:33:32 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.140743.12955@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Reply-To: tpickett@auspex.com (Tom Pickett)
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc. Engineering
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-
- In article <1993Jan26.140743.12955@engage.pko.dec.com>,
- sontakke@helix.enet.dec.com (Vikas Sontakke) writes:
- > My speedo occasionally gets stuck at 68.5 mph. A brisk run towards 80
- awakes
- > it.
- >
- > (BTW), why didn't you use 1st gear and ~40mph to unstuck the tach?
-
-
- Actually, the whole thing was sort of a spur of the moment thing. I
- was driving down a nameless freeway in the Bay Area, on my way to
- go flying. The suggestion had been made on the net earlier that I
- might fix it by going to 65K. There was this guy in a Lexus who was
- bugging me, just kinda accelerating and then cutting in front of me
- and slowing down, then slipping in behind me, and accelerating again.
-
- Soooooo, I punched it to get away from him. He didn't follow. At
- 6500 rpm much to my surprise, the tach suddenly swung into action.
- I usually don't run the engine as high as 6500 in first gear, because
- that still produces a fair amount of speed, (is it 40 MPH?)
- and so it's inappropriate to do so on a city street -- the only likely place
- I would be at a stop. There wasn't much traffic on the freeway.
-
- Besides, I figured I was about to go 95 MPH on three wheels in the
- airplane anyway, so doing it on four wheels seemed that much easier...
-
-
- Tom Pickett
- tpickett@auspex.com or 74616.2237@compuserve.com
- SHO GOZE
-