byebye_sti
15+ Year Contributor
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- Dec 25, 2007
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Barrington,
New Hampshire
Saturday night the starter in my car went and before that it would run fine and idle at about 750 to 1000.
Yesterday I replaced the starter and when I started it up it seemed to be idling fine.
This morning, before school, I started it up and it was idling fine again. I figured there would be no problems.
On my way to school I had to stop quickly and threw the clutch in, the RPM's immediately dropped and the car died. This was unusual, so I kept an eye on all of my gauges. When I got to the stop sign right before the highway I threw in the clutch again and it died.
The car was idling at about 625-650 most of the time and sometimes even lower. It would only die when I threw in the clutch though. My oil pressure gauge was also reading a bit lower than normal.
Could this have anything to do with changing the starter? I do have a slight oil leak that I am getting fixed today. Could that be the problem? I'm not sure what to do, because I don't like driving it like this with the chance of something getting messed up.
Would not tightening the starter really tight have anything to do with this?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Yesterday I replaced the starter and when I started it up it seemed to be idling fine.
This morning, before school, I started it up and it was idling fine again. I figured there would be no problems.
On my way to school I had to stop quickly and threw the clutch in, the RPM's immediately dropped and the car died. This was unusual, so I kept an eye on all of my gauges. When I got to the stop sign right before the highway I threw in the clutch again and it died.
The car was idling at about 625-650 most of the time and sometimes even lower. It would only die when I threw in the clutch though. My oil pressure gauge was also reading a bit lower than normal.
Could this have anything to do with changing the starter? I do have a slight oil leak that I am getting fixed today. Could that be the problem? I'm not sure what to do, because I don't like driving it like this with the chance of something getting messed up.
Would not tightening the starter really tight have anything to do with this?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
