Funny phone call - How to stall an automatic...

Well how do you?

A friend phoned my while I was at Stanford Hall today sitting in Dickies bus. She said "Steve, Steve how do you stall an automatic? - I've turned it off, taken out the key and it's still going."

After a swift Conference with Dickie and Vanorak:

"Put it in top gear, brakes on and press accelerator"

"What? I can't hear you..."

"Put it in top gear, brakes on and press accelerator"

"I can't hear you, the engines making noises - I'll have to go... bbbeeeeeeeeeeeeepppp"

 

19 views and nobody curious enough to ask what happened?

 

go for it then, seeing as i've got an auto, my guess is let your mrs sit in the driver side she can stall anything

 

What happened??

I was thinking pull the little wires off the coil?? Hand over the top of the carb or air filter??

Funny question but a puzzler. How would you?? A proper auto would just boil its ATF in drive and hoping for it to stop.

And then what about those electronic autos that operate via a robot system like in my Fiat 500?? That would just burn out the clutch. Or it would sense its not moving and disengage the clutch.

 

Im certainly still wondering!???

 

pull off the main HT lead off the coil.....unless you have a better way....how did you do it???????????????

 

think i would of removed the HT leads minding my fingers

 

So? why did she need to stall the auto, and did it work?

 

so i know for future reference....being fuel injected if i pulled the battery quick release would mine stop what with being electric fuel pump etc - or would it continue to run off the alternator?

 

Grab an HT lead from a racing engine. Dare you. And when you have let us know

 

Grab an old HT lead from anything where the insulation is breaking down a bit,

'puts a tingle in your fingers and a tingle in your feet'....

....for the rhythm of life is a powerful beat

 

I did it to a Beetle once when I was just a youngster. I thought "ruddy hell this is good. I can breakdance"

 

So come on Zed, why did the woman want to stall her auto and how did she??

 

He's gone back to his shed

 

after receiving a high tension shock and you get up off the floor....you have a stalled engine....and youve given your buddies a good laugh....job done....so come on HOW DID YOU DO IT!!

 

easiest way is to pull the live feed off the coil... pretty sure you couldn't get an auto to stall unless you could get the revs to drop low enough

 

I didn't do it - her first question was "are you in?" I was at Stanford hall in the back of Dickies bus having a cuppa.

"eventually" after about an hour, her partner arrived and did what we, the stalling commitee, advised in the first place - put his foot on the accelerator in top with the brakes on. Stalled straight away. Well done Dickie and Vanorak - I suspected,, trying to get my head round it, but you were very +ve.

In case you're wondering it's a 90's Mercedes disabled transport minibus converted into a camper.