Rover V-8

[jeyerman@ix.netcom.com]

The Cutlass/F-85 and Buick Skylark/Special used a normal driveshaft-it was the 
Pontiac Tempest that used a flexible driveshaft and a transaxle.  The problem 
with the Olds and Buick automatics (called the "slim Jim") was that they used 
lock-up clutches that wore out in 25-30K miles and then produced horrible 
shifts (crash or slam was a better description).  A good idea that is used on 
almost all modern automatics, but back then they still had some bugs to work 
out.  

Jan


Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> wrote:
> At 04:35 PM 10/24/2000 -0400, jeyerman@ix.netcom.com wrote:
">I loved the car and the performance but teh automatic transmission was
bad news.


I suspect this was more the "rubber"drive-shaft used on the slido-matics
than the transmission itself.  This is one of the very few of the many
errors made by GM which has been admitted.

Marc

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