Slipped gear, black smoke

[scharnhorst]

Hi! 1st post here, and also quite a newbie to driving.

Whenever I go downhill with the car at 1st gear, it has a tendency to just suddenly go to neutral. It doesn't always happen, but it's quite dangerous, and I've read here that going down at a low gear is safer than just using the brakes.

Another thing too, after an injector recalibration, the engine now loves to spew out black smoke, even if I try to really be easy on the gas, there's still black smoke.

Ano kaya to. Dati kasi puti lang e.

tapos sana naman hindi sira transmission nung auto.

any ideas?

[viper2lt]

make ng car and model? matic ba or stick?

[alwayz_yummy]

gas or diesel?

[scharnhorst]

1st gen '99 ranger

[alwayz_yummy]

baka sliding na clutch mo, calibrating na pump mo.. ranger yan most likely manual yan...

[scharnhorst]

yep. manual. Ang nangyayari may tutunog tapos, biglang nakaneutral na, then bubulusok na ko pababa.

Hindi nakakatuwa pag nangyayari sa isang jam-packed carpark

[speedyfix]

mausok talaga yan... pero if wala sya usok before the calibration then it's probably faulty work...

[scharnhorst]

I guess hinay nalang sa apak, it's not that bad if di naman fi-nloor yung gas.

Some people told me that the trannsmission going out of gear was "perfectly normal", though.