In what seems to be my neverending battle with gremlins on my car, I finally got the time to try and do some simple tuning on my car. I spent a couple hours with the USB drivers (which were already on the freakin' laptop, I think Windows just forgets where they are to piss me off).
At this point, I've done a lot of idling (well kinda idling, I've got the oscillating idle issue, but I'll try to work that out after I get a rough tune), and the engine is very hot- DLL says about 95C. I start driving around to get a few zones in, and I can't shift anymore. This feels like how it was when I had the "clutch hose from hell" go bad on me- the one behind the engine. I replaced it with a braided SS line, so I don't expect it to be bad- anyway, the clutch reservoir is full. The clutch is going to the floor without disengaging the engine. After a bunch of grinding, I get the car home without the clutch (match RPMs Matt!), but of course, Doh! the Scion of a friend of my wife is in the driveway- thankfully we had a couple 16 year old boys between us to push the car back into the driveway once the Scion was out of the way. Now, back to the basic question I wanted to ask- could this be overheated clutch fluid? I don't see any sign of a leak (yet, I haven't checked too closely). The clutch slave is a pretty new rebuild. Of course, the car has been sitting a while (no time to do a decent tune, no chance of it getting through emissions, so I've been waiting on it). I find it hard to believe that I've boiled the clutch fluid, since it is DOT4, and this isn't the brakes. Other than the slave cylinder, any ideas? Once the car is cool, I'm going to put it up on stands and check the movement of the slave cylinder. A rebuild kit is cheap- I may just go down to autozone and pick one up just in case. Matt Bennett Austin, TX '96 with prototype Ubercharger White with Blue Stripes Non-OBDII Link _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower
