[Vwdiesel] Engine hints ---( for Gavrik Peterson and all. )

[Shawn Wright]

On 13 Aug 2003 at 13:13, Val Christian <val at swamps.roc.ny.us> wrote:

> > Also, I'd imagine you could dump the clutch w/ it in
> > gear to kill it.
>
>  You don't want to push in the clutch!!!  Leave it in gear,
>  and stomp on the brakes.  My experience is that when it
>  happens on the expressway (only place for me), there's
>  a fog behind you, and you swerve to avoid anyone ahead of
>  you, and will full braking effort (metallic brakes), you're
>  still accelerating faster than you can normally get the
>  car to accelerate.  It's really exciting!

I would suggest that if it still pulls away under heavy braking, then your clutch is
slipping, not your brakes. The brakes should be easily capable of stopping anything
the engine can put out, but not so for the clutch...
When it happened on my 1.6TD I had no trouble killing the engine with my foot on
the brake, and this with the tach *pegged* beyond 6000 rpm...

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Shawn Wright
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