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Re: Transmission Question

To: "David A Templeton" <davidt@opentext.com>
Subject: Re: Transmission Question
From: "Graham Stretch" <technical@iwnet.screaming.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:35:21 -0000
HI David
At 0 Celsius the oil will be pretty thick, this can make the stick heavy BUT
is it heavier than normal on similarly cold days? If you have O/D this will
function erratically when you get to about 1/3 oil capacity (T shirt), if
this happens oil is urgent!

Graham.

----- Original Message -----
From: David A Templeton <davidt@opentext.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 7:20 PM
Subject: Transmission Question


>
> What symptoms would I notice if there was NO gearbox oil left?  I still
have
> to crawl underneath to take a look for a missing plug etc.
>
> Would a symptom be in moving the gear stick back and forth to make sure it
> is in neutral that it is hard to move?  The temperature here has been
about
> 0 deg C ( 35 deg F )
>
> Any ideas would be nice
>
> Thanks
>
> David A. Templeton
> mailto:davidt@opentext.com
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