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RE: All locked up!!

To: "'W. R. Gibbons'" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Subject: RE: All locked up!!
From: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 15:09:03 -0700
That would be wonderful compared to the other options, but no, afraid
not.

>Original Message-----
From:   W. R. Gibbons [SMTP:gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu]
Sent:   Wednesday, May 28, 1997 12:59 PM
To:     Randy Rees
Cc:     'mg'
Subject:        Re: All locked up!!

On Wed, 28 May 1997, Randy Rees wrote:

> Next query. 67 BGT, original engine tranny.
> 
> Now the problem. For no reason the engine will lock up when I turn the
> key. I put it in gear and the car wont even move. Push it down a hill
> and drop into second gear and the tires just squeal, the engine wont
> even turn over. Put into third gear and you get a little chirp and then
> the engine tranny turn over and car runs. This has happened three times
> now in about five weeks. Starter? Tranny?
> 

Wonder if you have a head gasket leaking enough coolant into a cylinder 
to cause this?  Are you losing coolant?

   W. R. Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                  Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                  gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8629


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