It's head was spinning around and spewing pea soup everywhere. :woo-hoo:
But seriously I had a strange thing happen that has me worried. My car wouldn't shift out of neutral! So to back up this is how the morning went:
Started out, driving down my hill spirited-ly... and I take off easy at a light. There is lots of traffic and I smell a oil burning smell. Always worried it's my car I get on the highway and the smell goes away. Good enough.
2 miles later I coast to a stop light off the highway, clutch in and in neutral. Stop at the light, adjust volume, shift into fir-
Brick wall.
Shift into first. nothing. Just a solid wall. Second, same thing. No third, no fourth. I can't actually get the shifter into position. Clutch in and out a few times, and I can slam it into first.
Start driving. At the next light I throw it into first sub 20mph while I am still rolling. Another light later I roll into it clutch in, heat, lights, all on. The car dies while it rolls. Start it a few seconds later while I am still rolling and it starts right up. Well, I decided I'd best be off in the right lane so I drive the rest of the way to work wondering what's going on. Not once later did I have those problems again. I drove clutch in down a hill for a ways, no problems with shifting from stops. Stopped at a store and restarted with no issues.
Was this a fluke? What can I check to see if something important is breaking?
But seriously I had a strange thing happen that has me worried. My car wouldn't shift out of neutral! So to back up this is how the morning went:
Started out, driving down my hill spirited-ly... and I take off easy at a light. There is lots of traffic and I smell a oil burning smell. Always worried it's my car I get on the highway and the smell goes away. Good enough.
2 miles later I coast to a stop light off the highway, clutch in and in neutral. Stop at the light, adjust volume, shift into fir-
Brick wall.
Shift into first. nothing. Just a solid wall. Second, same thing. No third, no fourth. I can't actually get the shifter into position. Clutch in and out a few times, and I can slam it into first.
Start driving. At the next light I throw it into first sub 20mph while I am still rolling. Another light later I roll into it clutch in, heat, lights, all on. The car dies while it rolls. Start it a few seconds later while I am still rolling and it starts right up. Well, I decided I'd best be off in the right lane so I drive the rest of the way to work wondering what's going on. Not once later did I have those problems again. I drove clutch in down a hill for a ways, no problems with shifting from stops. Stopped at a store and restarted with no issues.
Was this a fluke? What can I check to see if something important is breaking?
