Mike Romain

Just a wild guess, but I would be checking the rad fan for a busted
clutch.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

bigbossfan80 wrote:
>
> It's been about 8 months now since anything has gone wrong with my 89
> Cutlass Supreme. I was starting to like not having to repair or
> replace, and instead just maintain!
>
> But lastnight I drove to Mississauga, Ontario to pick-up my brother.
> It's an hour and a half drive on the highway. Going there, everything
> was smooth as always. But, on the way back, about 20 minutes from
> home, I noticed quite a violent shaking and vibration through the gas
> pedal, floor board, and especially steering wheel/column. For some
> reason I thought right away that it was a transmission thing, but then
> I realized it was doing it in every gear, and ONLY when I was at a
> certain throttle point.
>
> For example, if I was 0-20% on the throttle, it was fine, 20-50%, it
> was shaking violently and wouldn't accelerate, and 50%+, it was
> fine!??
>
> It was also making loud, almost grinding noises. And the steering
> wheel shaking could be heard as well as fealt. Same with the gas
> pedal itself, I could feel it pulsating really violently in my foot.
>
> Needless to say I was very worried. Once I got onto city streets, I
> noticed it would even do it in 1st gear while starting to accelerate
> initially, then once I got past the throttle point in which it woud
> shake and rattle, it would stop until I was in the next gear and back
> at that same throttle point.
>
> It kind of felt to me like something was all-of-a-sudden very loose,
> like something in the steering rack, column, or drive-line. My
> brother is under the impression that it didn't start doing this until
> I had accidently drove over too far on the left hand side and ran over
> all those closely placed BUMPY things to make you slow down. But I am
> not sure this is the case...
>
> Anyways, what makes this SO strange, is that once I got off the
> highway and to my parents house, I shut the car off, parked it, and
> went inside for about 20 minutes. Then, when I went to leave to go
> home, I noticed that the shaking and vibrating was completely GONE!!!!
> What the hell!!?? Simply shutting the car off and parking it for 20
> minutes has somehow cured the problem!!?? I drove all lastnight and
> so-far today and it has not done the same thing once! Not even a
> little bit!
>
> So this has me totally flabergasted. Because I could see if it were
> an engine problem, then maybe reseting the engine by turning it off
> could possibly fix it, but this in no way felt like an engine problem
> at all! It felt completely like something was phyically damaged or
> disturbed. Maybe I'm wrong? I mean, I know when an engine has a
> mis-fire like a bad coil that the engine will shake violently under
> load, so maybe this is the case, but it definately didn't feel like it
> to me...
>
> Anyone have any input to this crazy story??
>
> THANKS GUYS!
>
> Merry X-mas