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Old 10-08-05, 03:45 AM
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man, it bad if hot air is coming up through my shifter boot

i just got my car and im wondering is it bad if hot air is coming up through my shifter boot??? please let meeh knoe haha
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if hot air is coming up thew there then the rubber boots around the shifter are broken and worn out....

maybe u have an exhaust leak also?
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smoke comes out of mine.
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The rubber boot must be practicaly gone for actual wind to come through! Buy a new one, its a 15 minute fix even if it takes you 10 minutes to find your socket set. Theres also supposed to be a little piece of carpet-padding-type insulation in there too, on top of the rubber boot.
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alll my rubber boots are dead and my shift boot is torn...i use it as my hand warmer
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a little bit of hot air comes up through mine, but when i have the a/c on no air comes through???

doesnt bother me but, wtf?
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Originally Posted by berlinlovesmariko
i just got my car and im wondering is it bad if hot air is coming up through my shifter boot??? please let meeh knoe haha
is it just me...or am i no the only one seeing sarcasm???
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no its normal no matter what look ast how hot the fuckingthing gets ofcorse your gonna feel hot air
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Originally Posted by berlinlovesmariko
i just got my car and im wondering is it bad if hot air is coming up through my shifter boot??? please let meeh knoe haha

You do know your transmission gets warm as well and you do have a exhaust under your car that generates tons of heat and iirc the cats are right under there, especially since its a rotary. If its alot of hot air it could also be your rubber boots have deteriorated.
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Originally Posted by meddle
smoke comes out of mine.
heh mine used to do that until I started to get it right.
New bushings and boots, when I opened it up, I found that all the rubber had disinegrated into nothing.

Oh now, wait, it's all in the tranny!!! yea!!!

Once I got as much crud as I could get out , I put new bushings and boots on. Heh, no more smoke. I then took it to a mechanic to have the tranny flushed. IT madea big difference. He was joking that he'd never seen such thick black chinky tranny fluid. I said yeah, that's the old shifter boots.

He gave me a look like I had two heads!!!

Um, bad stuff there- heat is not your friend, your tranny will not like it for long.....

If it's exaust, you're likely to pass out from Co2 poisoning while you're driving, and you might even end up being stopped by a tree.

LOL


but really, look into it, the boots and bushings are cheap, and a good idea.

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