Re: clutch in -> revs fall???

From: Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA) (GROSS(at)unit.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 1997 - 13:30:00 CDT


Dick Sanders wrote,

>How long since a rebuild on the engine? Friction from the throwout
bearing
>should only cause a very small drop in RPM's. If mine dropped "a
couple of
>hundred" RPM's at idle (say from 900 to 700), I'd suspect worn thrust
>washers.

Yep.
I read some time back that the engines "droop" RPM was a reasonable
method for determining the elapsed life of a rootes engine.

Jarrid Gross



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