On May 15, 2:56=A0pm, "Wayne Dobson" <non...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Mortimer wrote:
> > "Wayne Dobson" <non...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >news:Ge_Wj.3958$DZ6.3462@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> travis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> >>> I was explaining WHY THE ENGINE WOULD NOT DROP TO IDLE WHILE IN
> >>> GEAR.
>
> >> There is nothing to stop the engine from dropping to idle speed in
> >> gear.
>
> > Apart from the mechanical linkage between the road wheels and the
> > engine by virtue of the gearbox ;-)
>
> If the car slows enough, eventually the engine wi;; slow to idle.
>
> > Certainly this is the case with a manual gearbox and I'm fairly sure
> > that in an automatic the engine speed may fall a bit but will not
> > drop to idling speed.
>
> Do automatics not rest at idle in gear, with no gas applied?
You have to ASK this question?
What a ****in ignoramus you are.
Trav
