Any ideas what could be causing this and how to possibly fix it?
My '97 CR-V with 240,000 Km on it does the same thing. It's like the
tranny is 'sucking' the life out of the engine. Probably wouldn't hurt
to do a drain-n-fill a couple times anyhow, at your age. Use ONLY Honda
Z1 atf.
'Curly'
If engine RPMs decrease,then your speed HAS to decrease,or your igniter(in
the distributor) is sending a bad signal to the speedometer/tach.
Any tranny slippage would work the opposite,I believe;RPMs would increase
but speed would stay the same,then catch up.
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Jim Yanik
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At highway speed it _seems_ to slow down a bit if I touch the gas to
'help' the cruise. I'll have to observe it more closely, now that the
tach's behavior has been brought into question.
'Curly'
Tranny fluid is only a year old, or two.
'Curly'
I'm fairly sure it is not the tachometer just acting strangley
(unfortunately). It still seems like it slows down a bit and it also
seems to be getting a little worse lately. Have you tested your car
lately to confirm?
Anymore thoughts on what the problem might be?
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No chance. Fuel filter manifests when climbing hill into headwind.
Usually starts to sputter after you pull out to pass semi-trailer unit.
The tranny is 'skimming' some power for the downshift, which never comes
unless you punch it harder. That was my conclusion, but I don't have
time to read the 80 or so pages of autobox section of the Helms manual...
'Curly'