Well, if your ear is confirming the tach reading, I don't see what it can be
except a slipping clutch.
30K would not normally wear out a clutch, but it's certainly possible. Or
you could have an oil leak into the bellhousing -- the tranny front seal
seems likely since you just had to top off the tranny oil (where did it
go?). Either way it all has to come out, so it really doesn't matter what
the problem is -- you'll soon find out.
The OD has a clutch, also, but that seems less likely; and again, it would
all have to come out anyway.
There is nothing in the tranny itself that could result in this behavior.
Look at it as an opportunity to clean up a lot of things in the engine
compartment... <g>
on 5/16/02 4:43 PM, Tom Wagner at tomwagner@charter.net wrote:
> Help Needed:
>
> I have a 67 MGB, and noticed in 4th gear that the
> RPM's tended to rise but the car started to slow down.
>
> It did not seem to matter if it is in 4th gear with OD engaged
> or not. The clutch has about 30K on it, and since I have owned it over 15
> yrs no tranny work has been done to it.
>
> It happened only for about 2 miles, then for the rest of the
> drive home(~10 miles) it has not done it since.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction to start
> looking, by the way the tranny is filled with oil as I just
> added some to it about 1000 miles ago.
>
> Thanks in advance....
>
> Tom Wagner
> 67 MGB
> 72 TR 6
>
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