[DeTomaso] clutch squeal

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

Its simple...Mikey grew up in the City (San Francisco). My spousal unit also from SF didn't drive until she was 26...its a city thing.
   
  md

Douglas Kelm <dakelm at qwest.net> wrote:
  Mikey,

With all due respect (you know I love you, man), I find it hard to believe
that an American boy in the latter part of the twentieth century could make
it through high school and into (and maybe through) college without knowing
how to drive an automobile. And what state issues a motorcycle license to
someone without a driver's license? Come ON! We're all dying to know the
true details behind your deprived (depraved?!!!) childhood.

Doug

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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] clutch squeal


>
> In a message dated 3/26/07 7:15:01, garth_rodericks at yahoo.com writes:
>
> << It's the rear tires! Try not to rev it so high and let the clutch
out a
> bit slower and you shouldn't break rubber every time. ;o)
>
> >>>That reminds me of a story.
>
> As many people know, the Pantera was my first car; I didn't know how to
> drive, nor did I have an automobile driver's license when I bought my
Pantera back
> in October 1989. My girlfriend had to hurriedly teach me to drive in her
> Datsun B210 Sundowner in an abandoned parking lot, but as I had been
riding
> motorcycles for years, it was a pretty straightforward process.
>
> About a month after I bought it, after spending most of that time fixing
it
> to the point where I thought it was safe to drive (I was wrong, but that's
> another story), I drove the Pantera from California to Wichita Falls, TX
in one
> 18-hour day, arriving at 9:30 p.m. just in time to go out and party with
some of
> my friends from college who had started pilot training at Sheppard AFB a
few
> months before I did. One of them had purchased a brand new '89 5.0
Mustang GT
> with a five-speed, and as a non-drinker, I was nominated as designated
driver.
>
> Two other guys and three girls piled into this Mustang, and I got behind
the
> wheel and set off for the club. I noted that first gear was incredibly
low,
> much lower than in the Pantera, and the throttle response from the
> fuel-injected motor felt decidedly weird and oddly difficult to modulate
smoothly, and I
> also noticed a strange ZzzZzzZzz sound whenever I left a stop. The car
seemed
> to drive fine, but it just kept making that strange noise.
>
> Finally, when I was almost there (having driven almost all the way across
> town), I happened to glance in the mirror while leaving a stop and saw
SMOKE
> behind the car!
>
> Turns out that I was absolutely BROILING the tires at each stop! That
> ZzzZzzZzz sound was the tires spinning madly! I bet I took 50% of the
life off my
> friend's tires on that one short drive. Fortunately he was already fairly
> well-lubricated and didn't seem to notice.
>
> I conducted all further stops from 2nd gear with no further displays of
> inadvertant hooliganism....
>
> >Seriously, I agree with Bill. Sounds like the throw-out bearing. >>
>
> >>>It's odd that it only squeals when you are in-transit, i.e. it is
silent
> when the clutch is depressed, and when it is lifted, and only makes noise
when
> you are initially setting off. At the risk of asking the obvious, could
it
> possibly be belt squeal (especially since you said "it sounds like belt
> squeal"). Those few Panteras I have heard with squealing belts, only
seemed to make
> noise when the driver was leaving a stop....
>
> Mike
> 


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