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M46 question. 200 1986

posted by  someone claiming to be Luke Healey on  Sat May 12 10:01 CST 2001 [RELATED]

Ok,

I now have my new 1986 245..

And driving it, it has a few quirks:

-first and foremost, when trying to shift smoothly into 1st, or reverse, the car shudders a lot. It is almost better to just dump the clutch to go right into gear. This happens when shifting slowly into 2nd gear as well, but isn't noticed at higher speeds.

What could be causing this?

-2nd.. When trying to start it every so often, it sounds like you dropped a cat into a food processor, and the starter doesn't start the engine.. this is remedied by turning it off, and starting it again..

Is the starter going bad?

Mainly I'm curious about the clutch... It's kind of a pain to drive away from a stop.

The service records indicated that he just had the clutch replaced in 1997, and had the cable adjusted 4/21/01.

The engine is surprisingly clean at 200k miles.. and has a new radiator, hoses, water pump, etc..

OH.. and another question..

He said that it goes thru about one muffler a year due to it rusting out.. And I noticed that when the car is running, water is sputtering out the tailpipe..

Where is that water coming from???

Thanks

Luke





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