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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:38 pm 
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Today while driving home, i had my dog in the car with me. I was sitting at the highway with the cruise on set at 110km/h. Any way my dog can't stay still for longer then 1 minute and she jumped into the front knocking the t-bar into Neutral.

Subsequently the revs shot up to 5000 rpm within 1.5 seconds so i turned the cruise off f**k quickly. The car seems alright.... could any damage have been done?

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:45 pm 
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Wouldn't have thought so. Have done the same thing with my XH. Set the cruise in 4th and then relised I wasn't in 5th and absent mindedly went to change gears...........oops! :oops:

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:48 pm 
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this is why cars come out with rev limiters. So it wont do any damage

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:48 pm 
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s**t man.. i always thought that when cruise control is on and neutral is activated, cruise control automatically cuts out!

but yer probably wouldnt have done any damage.

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:49 pm 
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pttttf 5000rpm is nothing dont worry about it man. Iv had mine to 6000 at the drags and shes still fine

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:50 pm 
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manuals do switch of cruise control when clutched in, but it seems autos dont...

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:50 pm 
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i'v hit the limiter a few times
at 5700 and it loves it hahaaa

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:51 pm 
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im no expert....

but if it didnt make any loud groans or bangs...and it seems to be ok now, it should be alright....

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:52 pm 
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There is a real slight lag (bout 1/2 a second) between hitting the clutch and the revs dropping off 8-)

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:58 pm 
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If it made it home it will be fine. I remember when a mate was driving my car and went from 4th to first. revs bounced on the limiter, huge lockup.....scared the s**t outa me but it lived to see another day

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:01 pm 
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when I first got my BA, I clicked the SSS up instead of down. :oops: Hit the limiter but no problems, And I have the engine up to 5000 around once a week so as long as it isn't as bad as the way my EA was, should be nothing, might have possibly helped clean some muck out of the engine.

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:17 pm 
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smiley235 wrote:
when I first got my BA, I clicked the SSS up instead of down. :oops: Hit the limiter but no problems, And I have the engine up to 5000 around once a week so as long as it isn't as bad as the way my EA was, should be nothing, might have possibly helped clean some muck out of the engine.


I was just gonna say it would've cleaned the cobwebs out...
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:27 pm 
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I've hit 6500 in my corty a couple of times...
First time the flywheel came loose!
It might have went further than 6500...
but the factory tach only went to 6 or 6.2, and it kept on revving!

Only time I've really had anything go badly wrong was the time I bought a 4spd XC with over 300thou on the clock. Holding it flat in first, with a 350holley and extractors, would do about 60km in first... with 3.23 diff gears. For the third set of treads I fitted a tacho, and found out it was revving out to 6500 to do 60km in first!

Spat number one rod that day! Just after I dropped it into 2nd... :shock:
If only id tried 2nd from the start..!

 

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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:27 pm 
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You guys are forgetting one thing, an engine at 5k underload is nothing, but free revving is a different story altogether.
For that short amount of time i doubt you would have done any damage.
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:52 pm 
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Walker wrote:
You guys are forgetting one thing, an engine at 5k underload is nothing, but free revving is a different story altogether.
For that short amount of time i doubt you would have done any damage.


I never new the potential of damage caused to free reving and engine. Is it because of the sudden change in speed putting stress on the engine?

 

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