AKIRA Posted November 5, 2004 Share Posted November 5, 2004 Well, two things happened today, I did the carb mod on my brat and the loyale's tranny had its final "problem". I did the carb mod where you use a coat-hanger to make the secondary open at third throttle; I found out that the secondary vacuum actuator wasn't hooked up at all! It was running on the primary-only from before I owned it, the vacuum line to it and about 4 others were plugged by bolts, so I did the mod, and I used a small spring to keep it nice and tight, it works awesome! I can do above 70 on the highway now! And it can actually accelerate too! I'll attach pics later, I used my dads old digi camera, don't know how to pull them off of it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- And now on a sad note, my loyale went through its last auto tranny. On the way to college in the morning, the transmission governor cored its gear so I had to go 1/2 the way in second. On the way back, I was doing only 50, I started to smell auto tranny smoke, I looked back and a plume of it was coming out the back and it began to fill the interior too, I had only a few miles left, so I rolled down the windows and floored it, racing along at 65 like kamikaze on a dive, leaving a trail of atf fluid behind me. Oh, if only "Flight of the valkiries" was playing on the radio, it would have been perfect. It gave out completely about a half-mile from my off-ramp, rolling to a stop by the side of the road; I called my dad on my cell and had him pick me up. A little later a friend of my paps got it with his tow-truck. It is ripe for a manual conversion now, one day, the "Kamikaze Royale" will fly again. That is the best I have ever written, and it’s true too. -AK. P.S. it went through 2 auto trannys, and 3 governor gears. in the 8 months I have owned it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subi81 Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Sorry to here about the tranny but I laughed my ***** off on the story, Manual all the way!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthWet Posted November 6, 2004 Share Posted November 6, 2004 Maybe only ruptured the vacuum modulator, sucking fluid into the intake. Easy enough to tell by pulling rubber vacuum hose of modulator and seeing if wet with ATF. Fixing this might allow you to limp awhile further until you are ready for that manual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKIRA Posted November 6, 2004 Author Share Posted November 6, 2004 there was atf fluid coating the engine bay, I think it dripped, no better yet sprayed out, onto the cat. from where? I'll figure out tomorrow. prob. coming out of the dome thing over the governor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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