Pontiac: Runaway engine keeps on running after shutoff?

Jim Land <NOSPAMcom> scribbled:
 

This thing just smells like fish all over. Why would a manual transmission
cluch have hydraulic fluid in it? Wouldn't that make the pressure plate
rather useless? Then the car wouldn't go anywhere.

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Actually, all manual transmission equiped cars since the 80's have hydraulic
clutch assemblies. The part I still can't figure out is why wasn't she able
to stop? Try to replicate this story in your car and you'll see that even a
marginal brake system can overpower the engine and stop the car. Unless she
also had a complete power booster failure and was a small woman, she should
have been able to get it stopped. The story even said the e-brake still
worked...

"Don P." <com> wrote in message
news:196.97.132... 

In article <196.97.132>,
"Don P." <com> wrote:
 

Yes it does.
 

Because it is a hydraulically actuated clutch.
They've been around for a long-long time.
 

Errr... No. The hydraulics (DOT3 brake fluid actually) aren't
-literally- on the friction plates.
 

It's a GM product, anything is possible...

My guess is that she was talking on a cell phone, painting her
nails, putting on make-up while drinking a Latte' and shaving her
legs which left her with zero appendages to control the vehicle
with.

In article <news.prodigy.com>,
net says... 
Well now, in my Sunfire I have talked on my cell phone on occasion while
driving (don't make it a habit tho), put lipstick on (while waiting at a
light), talk to my little muttley but never have I tried shaving my legs
while driving! But I have seen some women that I swear are vacumming
their cars while driving ^..^
--
Cheers!

Pepper's Mum

Neil Nelson <net> scribbled:
 


D'oh! Forgot about that. Still used to the old cable-driven assemblies.
The story wasn't worded too clearly

 


But you can still at least force it out of gear without disengaging the
clutch (might weaken a syncro or two, and most people probably wouldn't
think of doing that anyway - "you have to disengage the clutch to do
anything", we're told)

In article <196.97.132>,
"Don P." <com> wrote:

[snip]
 

According to the story, a pin had come loose from inside the
transaxle jamming the gears into engagement.

Personally, I believe it's impossible for all of these supposed
amlfunctions to occur all at once.

BTW, neat X-face :-)