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May 8, 2008 | 08:50 AM

#26

theWING

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From: Knoxville, TN

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Originally Posted by Goodwood

I just posted my situation on another thread, but from what I've read on this one, I may have overheated something by teaching my daughter how to parallel part her '03 CVT... out on the street in front of the house with two cars parked and her trying to get between them... lots of hard-left then hard-right turning with very little vehicle movement... probably getting hot under the hood.... after parallel parking 5 or 6 times the PS just quit...

Goodwood, sorry for missing this part. Ya that could definitely cause the same type of overheating I experienced on the Dragon. It just took a lot longer for me I guess because there was more ventilation as I was moving, and you were more or less stationary.

You're a brave man teaching her to drive in between two actual cars. When I have kids (if ever) I plan on buying traffic cones and getting them to practice with those first. Or mabe I'll teach them how to do it Russ Swift style!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhMq8jDr3HI

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May 8, 2008 | 08:56 AM

#27

theWING

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From: Knoxville, TN

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Originally Posted by rustyboy155

Your power steering pump shouldn't be shutting down that often. I drive my car hard, and track it regularly, and it's never shut off on me. The fan is probably shot if it's shutting down on you.

Ya thats what I'm afraid of. But then again the dragon is really really tight and twisty (I'm sure you've been) and I'm sure the tracks you run are larger and have more sweeping turns rather than several hard switchbacks, one after another. Seems the hard switchbacks would put more stress on the pump than a sweeping turn?

I apologize for multiple posts!