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PROBLEM 1. Jerky Accelerator
The symptoms
- when accelerator, changing up/down gears whilst still having foot on throttle/accelerator the car can jerk a lot, as though it's slightly bunny hopping. Makes for a jerky ride at slow speeds around town when changing gears and speeding up and down occurs repetitively. The car drives fine out on the highway at constant speed without fail. Ive had this problem ever since i bought the car a year ago, but it's gradually getting worse. The car idles fine, never drops revs, and the accelerator never gets totally 'stuck' ,
Im going to assume it's probably the accelerator cable connecting the pedal to throttle butterfly??? It wont be carb related cos it idles fine.. and never drops/alternates revs, right?
PROBLEM 2.
- My car intermittantly is leaking Coolant. it's leaking from the left side of the block somewhere before the return line to the radiator. It happens intermittantly -- weather temperature doesnt appear to be a factor cos it happens when it's cold or hot. Engine temps stay constant at about 1/3 on the temp guage. When it does leak, i can see that it's dropping off the bottom of the sump, so it's leaking somewhere from the engine and down the edge of the engine and dripping off the sump, odd!
Anyone know where it'll be leaking from, and how to fix it?
The symptoms
- when accelerator, changing up/down gears whilst still having foot on throttle/accelerator the car can jerk a lot, as though it's slightly bunny hopping. Makes for a jerky ride at slow speeds around town when changing gears and speeding up and down occurs repetitively. The car drives fine out on the highway at constant speed without fail. Ive had this problem ever since i bought the car a year ago, but it's gradually getting worse. The car idles fine, never drops revs, and the accelerator never gets totally 'stuck' ,
Im going to assume it's probably the accelerator cable connecting the pedal to throttle butterfly??? It wont be carb related cos it idles fine.. and never drops/alternates revs, right?
PROBLEM 2.
- My car intermittantly is leaking Coolant. it's leaking from the left side of the block somewhere before the return line to the radiator. It happens intermittantly -- weather temperature doesnt appear to be a factor cos it happens when it's cold or hot. Engine temps stay constant at about 1/3 on the temp guage. When it does leak, i can see that it's dropping off the bottom of the sump, so it's leaking somewhere from the engine and down the edge of the engine and dripping off the sump, odd!
Anyone know where it'll be leaking from, and how to fix it?
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