<VV> Could have been Unintended acceleration (back to Corvair)

Rick Norris ricknorris at suddenlink.net
Fri May 9 17:04:05 EDT 2008


Now that sounds familiar!
Rick Norris


>I had an instance (Corvair), near the end of a long highway run, where the
> RPMs did not want to come fully back to idle.  The Rs were around 1700 - 2
> grand even after snapping the throttle pedal a couple of times.  It turned
> out that the fan bearing had walked upward and the center portion which 
> does
> not spin was preventing the throttle cross shaft from closing fully.
>
> Later, JR



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