[Shotimes] PLEASE help me diagnose problem!

[Ron Nottingham]

Sounds (smells?) like you have fried the clutch, and may be looking at a
clutch replacement soon.  You exhaust malady is probably where the y-pipe
and the resonator are bolted together, check it out.

BTW, was your ricer buddy envious?

The A/C deal, sounds like it's locked up.  With the smoke coming from that
area, you may have wore the belt down.  This may even cause your charging
problem, since the belt may not be turning the alternator much.

Ron N. - Dalton, GA
90 SHO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian E. Harris" <sho-sc@sho-sc.com>


> When it rains, it pours, I guess.
>
> First up, with the '92:
>
> Ricer that I work with and I were out dinking around, and doing burnouts.
> At one point, I dropped the clutch, and nothing happened, other than the
> revs hit the limiter, and the clutch got stinky.
>
> Car still seems to drive fine, and clutch still seems to work just fine,
> save for the stinky clutch smell.
>
> During that same time, it appears I flexed something wrong, and the
> exhaust has a leak in it now, that causes my car to sound like my
> co-worker's CRX+fartpipe.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Next, with the '93:
>
> The weird growly/rumbly/rattly noise apparently is the AC compressor or
> something.  It stops making the noise if you turn off the defroster, or
> you rev the engine higher.  This noise doesn't happen at highway speeds.
>
> Next, I have smoke coming from that area (belts, etc).  Can't tell if it's
> oil or belt smoking...
>
> I've also been fighting with a charging problem, which may simply mean
> it's time for a new alternator...the car seemed to hold a charge from
> driving, but after jumpstarting it again today, and driving for a while,
> when I parked it (and a good quantity of smoke started coming from the
> belts area), I shut it off, then tried to start it, and it has absolutely
> NO power.
>
> Haven't yet attempted to restart it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -bh
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