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* Stop Wasting Gas - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Brake question - car pulls to the left - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/5d3dfe8cb0ae6254?hl=en
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TOPIC: Stop Wasting Gas
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/84f0a056a76753d7?hl=en
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Date: Wed, May 18 2011 12:07 am
From: jw@myplace.com
On Wed, 4 May 2011 08:40:44 -0700 (PDT), 4poster <vocatus@bigfoot.com>
wrote:
>And how about those huge gas guzzling trucks, to say nothing of
While I completely favor saving gas, I drive a truck, because I'm a
farmer. Somehow I cant see myself pulling a 5 ton load of hay, or a
stock trailer full of cattle or horses, with a high milage mini car.
Also, living in a rural area in the northern US, requires 4WD. No car
is going to get in and out of my farm roadway on winter, ir when
things get muddy.
Some of us have no choice.
Actually, I thought I'd save money on gas when I bought a small car
and still had my truck. Yea, the car used less gas, but I had double
the repair costs, double the insurance, double the tires and batteries
needed, double the license plate fees, etc. Not to mention that it
seemed everytime I'd take the car (which I could only use in the warm
weather months), I'd always end up having to haul some farm equipment,
or a load of firewood, or something, and I'd have to drive all the way
home, then drive the truck back to where I was. In the end, I was not
saving anything.
You city folks who only use a car to transport yourself and a bag of
groceries, can easily drive a small car. Actually you can (and
should) take public transportation. But on a farm, we MUST have a
truck, adn these trucks need power to haul all the stuff we haul. Now
the thing is that GM, Ford, Chrysler and all the other auto makers
need to make these trucks more fuel efficient, but there are limits.
To get the needed horsepower, takes fuel and lots of it.
I have had thoughts on this, and one of them was to have a 8 cylinder
engine, but have a 4cyl mode. When the truck is just being used to
drive around without any load, it would only use 4 cylinders, but when
it was pulling a load or using 4WD, it would switch to using all 8.
Another thing is the gear ratio. Trucks havbe a low ratio for power.
They need to have a means to switch between high and low.
Yet, I'll go one step further. I think the internal combusion engine
is obsolete. We need a new power source. Electric cars are limited
in use. The batteries are very costly and polluting. Solar power is
a start, but they are similar to electric. Hydrogen power has never
taken off, (is this because the oil companies would allow it?).
I dont have the answer, but we need to rethink transportation from the
beginning.
Of course, living on a farm, I do have the option to ride a horse, and
sometimes I do just that.
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TOPIC: Brake question - car pulls to the left
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/5d3dfe8cb0ae6254?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, May 19 2011 7:24 am
From: "Bill"
<jw@myplace.com> wrote in message
news:iaq6t61bnn6dhifi4bnik4arjn4g4m27tj@4ax.com...
> Recently when I step on my brakes, the car pulls to the left. This
> pretty much tells me it's a front brake. But I'm puzzled over how
> to
> determine which brake is bad. Does the car pull TOWARD or AWAY FROM
> the bad brake? I've been trying to rationalize this and everytime I
> think I got it figured out, I think I have it backwards.
>
> Which way is it?
>
> The car pulls to the left, is the left or the right brake the bad
> one?
>
> (Yes, I will check both of them, but I'd like to rip apart the
> problem
> one first).
>
I think it is the "owner" which is the trouble. If you would do a
complete service on both front brakes at the same time - new pads and
resurface / replace rotors, then this type of problem would not occur.
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