Roger Maxwell

An '89 Cutlass doesn't have a radiator fan with a clutch. It's a FWD,
transverse engine with an electric fan.

Roger

"Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:41CB1C77.375EF128@sympatico.ca...
> 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