Buzzing noise on hard acceleration w/ cold engine
#21
Lol, that was the first thing I was thinking, read through the thread, nope no one mentions it, then bam....Vector...lol
My XJ likes to take things niiiice n easy until she's well warmed up, then she goes!
Try any of that before she's ready and she's just sluggish and uncooperative.
My XJ likes to take things niiiice n easy until she's well warmed up, then she goes!
Try any of that before she's ready and she's just sluggish and uncooperative.
We don't have oil temp gauges on our XJ's like I do on some of my other performance cars and oil temp is the real info about when your engine is fully warmed up and ready to go hard.
It usually takes about 8-10 minutes of driving my "other" car before the oil temp comes up to the normal range while the water temp will be there in a few minutes, depending on outside air temp of course.
This means that the entire block is up to operating temp, not just the coolant.
Just sayin......
Vector
#22
Last I looked under, it was rust free. I've never had any work done under the vehicle besides the draining part of an oil change.
As for driving it hard while cold, there are some precarious intersections right out my home that require pep for safe crossing... And catching sequential green lights... Lol. NYC driving is very hard on cars.
The thing with tranny fluid is that I've been previously warned by a mechanic (on a prior car) not to mess with it when it's working, he said sometimes things worn out continue to operate (clutches and such) until you mess with it, and recommended against changing the fluid. Presumably by now the fluid would be saturated with metal-dust from gear wear (140k miles), but after his theory I'm afraid to fool with it. Thoughts?
As for driving it hard while cold, there are some precarious intersections right out my home that require pep for safe crossing... And catching sequential green lights... Lol. NYC driving is very hard on cars.
The thing with tranny fluid is that I've been previously warned by a mechanic (on a prior car) not to mess with it when it's working, he said sometimes things worn out continue to operate (clutches and such) until you mess with it, and recommended against changing the fluid. Presumably by now the fluid would be saturated with metal-dust from gear wear (140k miles), but after his theory I'm afraid to fool with it. Thoughts?
Last edited by vdpnyc; 05-15-2016 at 09:07 PM.
#23
#24
One case of fluid does the job that way.
Vector
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