Jerry
Check your spelling
replace "autotox" with "autox" and all should be well.
Computors are like idiot children, they will do EXACTLY what you tell them
to, no matter how obvious the desired outcome is :-)
Keith computor dunce :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Jamison" <jaydee7@pol.net>
To: <RootesRooter@aol.com>; <alpines@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Great news on my Alpine today
> Help! forgive me for doing this but I cannot post messages to this
> list, although I am a subscriber and receive all of the posts. When I
> try to post a message to alpines@autotox.team.net it is returned to
> me as a "fatal error", "undeliverable, Host Unknown". Can anyone
> offer a suggestion, please?
> Jerry
>
>
>
> ------------------ Reply Separator --------------------
> Originally From: RootesRooter@aol.com
> Subject: Re: Great news on my Alpine today
> Date: 01/26/2003 01:10pm
>
>
> Hmmm. I wouldn't have thought that the occasional use of a 'broken-
> springed'
> clutch could wear out the thrust washers like that. Was there enough
> left of
> the original washers to tell if they'd been installed backwards?
>
> I've had a spring break before, but the noise it made left no doubt
> that the
> clutch needed replacing right away.
>
> Dick Sanders
>
>
> ]
> In a message dated 1/26/03 8:46:49 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> bwana@c2i2.com
> writes:
>
> << In this case, the cause is that a spring from the disc, one of
> those used
> to
> absorb the shock of clutch engagement, broke into 5 pieces. These
> lodged
> into the diaphram of the clutch, so it took tremendous force to make
> the
> clutch work. This explains why the previous owner replaced the master
> cylinder and slave cylinder with new parts! (the cadnium plated
> stuff looks
> real nice!!). SInce this engine was getting all of this force, the
> only
> thing it could do was concentrate this force on the thrust washers.
> That is
> what wore them out fast enough and destryed the engine. So, if your
> clutch
> seems to take more force than usual, or you hear metalic chunks
> bouncing
> around, and you replace your slave and master and the thing still
> cha chinks
> the gears when you shift, inspect the engine quick, because you
> might be
> ruining another difficult to find engine. Lou >>
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