'93 Sport Starting Difficulty and Clutch Questions

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Steve Reynolds - 19 Sep 2006 01:15 GMT

Hello All. Car starts immediately, but wants to die and will do so if I
don't pump the gas pedal a few times for a period of about 10 seconds to
keep it running. It then runs fine and warms up normally. Car runs and
accelerates great after that. I am the original owner of this vehicle and it
has 103K miles on it. I am still on the original clutch and am curious to
how long a clutch usually lasts on the Explorer. To date, there is no
slippage that I can detect and it still seems to shift great. Thanks in
advance. Steve

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andy - 19 Sep 2006 21:27 GMT

I have 214K on my orig. cluch. 92 sport 4x4

> Hello All. Car starts immediately, but wants to die and will do so if I
> don't pump the gas pedal a few times for a period of about 10 seconds to
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> slippage that I can detect and it still seems to shift great. Thanks in
> advance. Steve

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Ashton Crusher - 20 Sep 2006 05:58 GMT

>Hello All. Car starts immediately, but wants to die and will do so if I
>don't pump the gas pedal a few times for a period of about 10 seconds to
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>slippage that I can detect and it still seems to shift great. Thanks in
>advance. Steve

If you know how to drive a clutch (and you do if it's lasted that
long) it will easily last that long and longer. If you don't know how
to drive a clutch you can burn it up in 25K.

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Steve Reynolds - 21 Sep 2006 02:47 GMT

Thanks Andy and Ashton for your responses. Steve

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Bob - 23 Sep 2006 01:01 GMT

Clutch life depends on type of use. Hicks only need to shift a few times
every hundred miles. Us city slickers gotta shift 20 times a mile, even
more here in San Francisco hills.

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