04 Apr 12 07:45, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:


 RW>> RW>> It wouldn't have driven very far with no trans fluid, unless
 RW>> you
 RW>> RW>> hooked both lines together outside of the radiator.

 RW>> MH> True.. It also wouldn't have gone far at all with no antifreeze
 RW>> going
 RW>> MH> into the engine.

 RW>> Oh yeah. Wait for it to cool, drive it a few blocks, then shut it
 RW>> down and wait for it to cool again.

 TW> Didn't the Cadillac Northstar engine have a Limp Home mode enabiling
 TW> it (in Theory) to be driven 100 miles without any coolant??

Yeah, theoretically. It alternately shut down one bank of cyl and then the
other by shutting off the spark and fuel injectors. Theoretically it would
still pass air through the intake and exhaust valves to cool the non
firing-injected banks. I wouldn't put much trust into such a system,
unless somebody was shooting at me.


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