RE: [DML] Anyone able to contact PJ Grady?

[<rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,

 

I haven't been avoiding you but I am extremely busy and can't easily answer
that question. The short answer is there is no one answer! There are many
different conditions or causes that could create idle fluctuation (vacuum
leaks, timing, CO adjustments, idle circuit issues, rich or lean fuel
mixture, bad gas, etc). Has anybody worked on the engine recently? You need
to have a good mechanic look at the engine and check all the basic settings
(Timing, vacuum hose routing, CO adjustment, emissions, fuel pressures, idle
and lambda circuit functions, etc). The answer lies in one of these areas
but which one is anybodies guess. Only God could nail it in an e-mail
without inspecting the car firsthand and I haven't been able to reach him
lately either ;-)

 

Rob Grady,

 

P.J.Grady Inc.

 

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From: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mike French
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:34 AM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] Anyone able to contact PJ Grady?

 

  

I ve left a few emails and a phone message over the past three weeks and can
t get a response.

On Thu May 6th, 2010 5:15 PM EDT rob@pjgrady. <mailto:rob%40pjgrady.com> com
wrote:

>Ahhh yes the dreaded empty tank syndrome that can fool the best of us! That
>can happen when you're using mileage conversion methods (fuzzy math?)
>instead of a working fuel gauge.
>
>Peter's description of the symptoms led me to think it was more likely an
>engine issue as it's not often an auto transmission causes an engine to
>stall. When I started the car the pump immediately gurgled with an obvious
>fuel air mixture more befitting the combustion chamber than the fuel tank.
I
>didn't want to overlook anything however so I attempted to drive down the
>block a ways. Not a good idea as I almost didn't make it back to the house!
>The vibrating shifter was nothing more than the driveline jerking from a
>severe lack of fuel (a human analogy would be you'd be jerking too if your
>lungs were starving for air!) and the pump noise tends to transfer through
>the frame tunnel so it can be misleading as to its origin. 
>
>I'm glad Peter posted before me as I didn't want the collective DML brain
>trust theorizing for long on the most obscure possibilities imaginable over
>a case of "empty tank syndrome". To add a car related spin on the old adage
>"when all else fails read the directions" or check the gas gauge! All is
>well that ends well and I hope Peter has a "Jerry Jug" for some gas cause
>that car isn't making it to no gas station.no Sireee!
>
> 
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>Rob Grady,
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>P.J.Grady Inc.
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>From: dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com
[mailto:dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com] On
Behalf Of
>jtrealtywebspannet
>Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:45 AM
>To: dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com
>Subject: [DML] Re: automatic transmission?
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>The pump noise would come from the front of the car, the transmission is
>behind the driver. The pump noise would only happen when the fuel tank is
>low. You might also have a problem in the fuel tank with the pick-up hose.
>it could be partially kinked or leaky and it either can't get enough fuel
to
>the pump or it sucks air. Glad it worked out to be something simple but the
>lesson here is to have Rob fix your fuel gauge and check out the pick-up
>hose and baffle in the tank. The "slipping" you felt was the engine bucking
>when it didn't get enough fuel, not the transmission slipping. You are
>really lucky you are close to Rob and he could make a "house call"!!!!!!
>David Teitelbaum
>
>--- In dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com,
>"Cameron, Peter" <cameron@...> wrote:
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>> Rob Grady was out east here on Long Island today, stopped by the house to
>investigate the 'transmission' problem. I wasn't home, but rather over on
>Shelter Island, bike riding with a friend.
>> 
>> We were at lunch when Rob called, with good news and bad news. The good
>news was that I didn't have a transmission problem. The bad news was how
>silly I felt when he mentioned that my gas gauge isn't working. 
>> 
>> Yes, my gas gauge. Yes, it is broken. I use the odometer, top off the
tank
>around 200 miles on the trip meter. So either I didn't fill it full last
>time, or the trip meter got reset. 
>> 
>> When one decelerates the gas in the tank moves forward, exposing the
>pickup, and the engine stalls, while at the same time the fuel pump makes a
>cavitation sound that could conceivably be interpreted as coming from the
>transmission. 
>> 
>> Really. 
>> 
>> Thank you, Rob.
>> 
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>> From: dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com on
>behalf of jtrealtywebspannet
>> Sent: Tue 5/4/2010 7:06 PM
>> To: dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com
>> Subject: [DML] Re: automatic transmission?
>> 
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>> You should do or have done a line pressure check. I would also check all
>of the external adjustments. If that didn't help then raise the car and
with
>the wheels off the ground and the motor running in gear, carefully go under
>the car looking for the source of the noise. A partially plugged up filter
>can "starve" the fluid pump causing cavitation making a noise.
>> David Teitelbaum
>> 
>> --- In dmcnews@yahoogroups <mailto:dmcnews%40yahoogroups.com> .com,
>"Cameron, Peter" <cameron@> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm getting a noise from the Timachne, a new noise, that has me
worried.
>I've been driving it regularly since the snow went away, but just local
>stuff around home. I drove it work on Friday, ~25 miles each way. On the
way
>home, and near home, I had to slow down for a car making a turn. There was
>an odd sort of vibrating sound that seemed to come from the back of the
car,
>and the engine stalled. I restarted, con
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