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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
* Stop Wasting Gas - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/84f0a056a76753d7?hl=en
* Air intake / oxygen-enriched combustion for improved fuel economy. - 2
messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/f92603291014afd3?hl=en
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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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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, May 19 2011 7:24 am
From: "Bill"
<jw@myplace.com> wrote in message
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> 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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TOPIC: Stop Wasting Gas
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/84f0a056a76753d7?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Mon, May 23 2011 1:35 pm
From: "4poster"
I was not referring to folks who made their living, but those who simply use
gas guzzlers, like Hummers, for transportation exclusively.
<jw@myplace.com> wrote in message
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> 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: Air intake / oxygen-enriched combustion for improved fuel economy.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos/t/f92603291014afd3?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, May 23 2011 3:31 pm
From: socraticquest
Hello,
Any recommendations for makers of membranes (necessary for producing
oxygen-enriched air) that can be placed near air-intake filters?
Oxygen-enriched combustion can not only improve fuel-economy, but may
also help reduce emissions, and even yield subtle gains in
performance.
Thank-you
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, May 23 2011 11:46 pm
From: "TE Cheah" <4ws@gmail.com>
| improve fuel-economy
Mysterios ( Mr.know all ) get no info fr me.
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