--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00002 Date: 01/07/98 From: JOHN PUMMILL Time: 10:04pm \/To: ROY WITT (Read 0 times) Subj: Todd... RW> JP> Put a wheezer on it. RW> I've been weighing that idea...It's about the most realistic RW> way to make up for the no-performance of the 5.0.... Hey, when you are desperate... --- FMail 0.94 * Origin: Running from the Klan in the Fiero (1:123/30) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00003 Date: 01/07/98 From: JOHN PUMMILL Time: 10:04pm \/To: ROY WITT (Read 0 times) Subj: Todd... RW> JP> Crank it, put the car on jack stands on the rear end, put in drive, RW> JP> call me. RW> There is no "drive"...how about 3rd, 4th or 5th gear? Pick one. --- FMail 0.94 * Origin: Running from the Klan in the Fiero (1:123/30) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00004 Date: 01/09/98 From: JOHN FAERBER Time: 04:57pm \/To: ROY J. TELLASON (Read 0 times) Subj: Vehicle Confiscation RJT> for $25 and the book value is $500, then they're RJT> supposed to collect the tax for $500. The risk to the RJT> notary of losing their ability to function or worse RJT> penalties is pretty stiff... Lets say you have a car which ahs been in an accident, front rear ended but the engine and front sheetmetal is good, go to the impound auction and buy a car for $100 (but the book value is $1,000) with a bad fender and motor, you take the parts from yours to make the other one good. You have to tax on the $1,000 book of the one you bought? Enen with papers from the city showing it was purchased for only $100????? --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: * MacSavvy OS/2 BBS * Dallas, Texas * 972-250-4479 * (1:124/1208) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00005 Date: 01/09/98 From: JAY EMRIE Time: 10:54am \/To: JOHN FAERBER (Read 0 times) Subj: Injectors JF> BR> as they were very dirty and cleaning them made a JF> BR> difference. The real problem was the fuel filter JF> BR> located in the rear fuel line. Replaced that and my JF> BR> problem went away. Check that if you like, but likely JF>Sure would be nice if it is something that simple! Will try to do it this we JF>d, and will let you know. JF>Here is an interesting note. JF>I have run it on cheap unleaded and averaged around 20 or just slightly unde JF>, filled it up on Mon (Jan 5th) with 93 Octane hoping it might clean the inj JF>rs some, but am now getting 17.5 MPG JF>Would this be an indication that the fuel filter is plugging up worse? JF>Sure is puzzling lower mileage with higher octane gas! John, buying a higher octane gas than the manufacturer's recommendation is a waste of money. If the engine is designed to run on XX octane, then XX+? will do no good. Nowdays virtually all knocks, decreased fuel mileage, etc is a result of some component failure - not lack of octane. * OLX 2.1 TD * Taglines:-tag-lains-The bumperstickers of BBS'ing. --- RemoteAccess 2.50+ * Origin: Northern Lights! * San Antonio * 210-499-6299 V34/VFC (1:387/23) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00006 Date: 01/08/98 From: JAY EMRIE Time: 10:19pm \/To: ROY WITT (Read 0 times) Subj: 5th wheel vs tagalongs RW>No, I didn't, but it stands to reason. When it's locked up, there's not muc RW>uid circulating anyway... I have a nagging feeling something is missing. I thought fluid operated the clutches, lubricated things, etc. If no fluid is being pumped how do these occur - especially the lubrication? Roy I seem to have received a bad packet - could read all the messages but when I made a reply and tried to close the packet so as to send the reply packet it blew up - four times!!! You asked about fivers compared to tagalongs - why the fiver is preferrable. I'll call fifth wheels fivers and towables tagalongs -easier to write. 1: Fivers are much easier to back into a parking spot ONCE one learns how. I find it easier to control a fiver compared to my tagalong even though I've been towing a tagalon for many many years and had just a few months experience with my son's fiver before selling it for him when he went to Trinidad. 2: Tagalongs are much more prone to swaying. I know, EasyLift makes sway control bars and load leveling hitches. Their sway control is the pits. I gave up on them and bought Reese Dual Cam Sway Bars and a Reese load Leveling Hitch. Much much better - but still not nearly as good as a fifth wheel. I know, the tow vehicle rear end overhang (rear axle to bumper), trailer hitch weight ratio to trailer aft of the axles weight has a lot to do with trailer sway. I have to optimum in that area. Vans like mine (long wheel base but not the extra long van) have a very short rear overhang, are very heavy (over 6500 lbs). Trailer is about 7000 lbs, has over 1000 lbs hitch weight and isn't very heavy at the aft end compared to the front end. Pickups have a much longer rear overhang. The longer the overhang the greater the sway probabilities. The lighter the hitch weight, the greater the sway possibilities. 3: Another "sway" problem. When a big semi going 10-20 mph faster overtakes and passes a trailer and tow vehicle it sucks the trailer and tow vehicle toward the semi. This is very disconcerting and potentially dangerous. Fivers are affected much less due to the position of the hitch (over the pick up rear axle). Many truckers seem to come as close as they can just to irritate RVers. Many truckers (not all) hate RVers. 4: Look at a tagalong closely. The hitch part of the frame extends out about 3 ft in front of the body. Now look at a fiver. The hitch extends very little in front of the body. Comparing a 32' tagalong which actually has a 29 ft body to a 32 ft fiver which actually has a 32 ft body, you can see you really get 3 ft. more living space. 5: Look at the storage space in each. A tagalong normally has VERY LIMITED storage space OUTSIDE the living area (space for jacks, hoses, chocking blocks, electric cords, drain hoses, etc) while most fivers have scads of this type space and most of it is up front. In a tagalong normally tis type space in at the rear - further upsetting the front to rear weight ratio. 6: Black, Grey, and fresh water tanks are normally considerably larger in a fiver of the same size as a tagalong. Might not mean much till you need to use the commode and the black water tank is full! or when you run out of fresh water and can't even make a pot of coffee, much less cook a meal. I bought my first trailer in 1948 (a 23 foot trailer towed by a 46 Dodge). They were house trailers then, and the term Recreational Vehicle wqasn't coined for many years, nor were there any RV parks - Just trailer parks or camps. I've had tent trailers, and a whole sucession of travel trailers since. Never had a pickup other than the 77 Datsun (which did an admirable job pulling our tent trailer) so I never managed to get a fiver. I suppose I have around a million towing miles behind me. My current trailer, bought new in 1986, has some 60,000 miles on it - maybe more. The 79 Ford van bought used has 145,000 on it approximately 2/3 towing a trailer. There are possibly better hitches than a draw bar type hitch (Reese and EasyLift) but they are very dear. Pullrite is one of the better ones. Since my van came equipped with a Reese hitch I could never justify dumping it and spending close to $1,000 on a Pullrite. If you are going to a larger trailer (29-30 or longer) a 4.10:1 rear end ratio is a must - almost regardless of the engine. My van has a 460 V8, and a 3.54:1 rear end. It does a decent job with a combined GVW of 13,500 lbs, but a 4.10:1 rear end would be much more desirable and would not increase fuel consumption much if any - I am forced to keep my foot in the carb much more now than I would be with a 4.10. Should I ever have to replace the ring and pinion a 4.10 set will go in. Actually my rear ratio is exactly why I managed to get the van at a bargain price with only 20,000 miles on it. The guy that had it and a lead sled of a trailer traded it in on a motor home cause the van just would not pull the trailer in the mountains of Colorado. His trailer weighed in over 12,000 lbs. I KNEW I wasn't about to buy a lead sled so I latched on to it. I hope this is of some help. I could probably think of much more if I sat here a bit, but it's getting late and I have too much work stuff to do. Let me know if you have any questions in this area. After 50 years doing it I hope I learned something! * OLX 2.1 TD * About the time we think we can make ends meet, they move. --- RemoteAccess 2.50+ * Origin: Northern Lights! * San Antonio * 210-499-6299 V34/VFC (1:387/23) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00007 Date: 01/08/98 From: JAY EMRIE Time: 09:17pm \/To: MARK LOGSDON (Read 0 times) Subj: Battery ML>RT> RJT> Funny, but I smoke, did the whole three years or so that I had ML>RT> RJT> that battery store, and never had a problem with regard to his. ML>RT> ML>RT> And Michael Kennedy AND Sonny Bono were both considered excellent ML>RT> skiers. They both hit a tree, and died, within the week. ML>We have a crisis on our hands. I propose we ban trees. They're ML>obviously killers. We must chop down all of the trees in the world. ML>If it saves the life of only one child, it will be worth it. ;) Are you inferring that Kennedy and Bono were poor innocent children? VBG * OLX 2.1 TD * I'm as confused as a baby in a topless bar. --- RemoteAccess 2.50+ * Origin: Northern Lights! * San Antonio * 210-499-6299 V34/VFC (1:387/23) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00008 Date: 01/07/98 From: DAVID WEI Time: 08:55am \/To: KENNY HENDERSON (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: FORD 302 VS SBC 305 -=> Quoting Kenny Henderson to David Wei <=- KH> When I went to the track in October a white newer Acura Integra was KH> behind me at the gaurd shack signing. I get out to talk to the track KH> official, and the guy behind me looks familiar. Turns out he is in my KH> Marketing class at school! Small world! His Integra ran a 13.2! Hehehe... What is in his integra anywayz? a JATO at the back? :) ... Documentation - The worst part of programming. ___ Blue Wave/OS2 v2.30 --- Telegard/QWK v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Vancouver, B.C. Canada (1:153/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00009 Date: 01/09/98 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 09:01am \/To: BILL MITCHELL (Read 0 times) Subj: Vehicle Confiscation Bill Mitchell wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: RJT> I dunno what's going to happen when I go to register that RJT> truck I'm building, if I'm going to be able to use the plate RJT> I have now or if I'm going to be forced to buy yet another RJT> one. BM> I've had them try, but not succeed, to collect sales tax on BM> vehicles I've owned for years when I registered them. That's another sore spot... Here they collect the sales tax when you get the _title_, not the registration. And they've put through some new regulations, putting the onus on the _notary_ who may be handling that stuff (in this state a notary can issue a title, or at least handle the paperwork for it, it still comes from the state DOT, plates, and all sorts of other stuff) to determine what sales tax should be collected. If you say you bought this heap for $25 and the book value is $500, then they're supposed to collect the tax for $500. The risk to the notary of losing their ability to function or worse penalties is pretty stiff... RJT> send copies of stuff into them to get it all straightened out. RJT> Not "you appear to be uninsured, please provide proof that you RJT> are", but "we've received notice that you're uninsured, so RJT> here's all this nasty stuff like suspensions and whatnot going RJT> into effect NOW and in the meantime try and prove that you're RJT> okay". Grr... BM> Yup, you got it. ^%$#@! email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00010 Date: 01/09/98 From: BILL MITCHELL Time: 11:37am \/To: JOHN FAERBER (Read 0 times) Subj: Vehicle Confiscation JF> Just saw on the rebroadcast of the 10 PM news that one of JF> these little towns right around of Dallas to towing your car JF> on the spot if proof of insurance is not produced. That JF> policy has been suspended and will be settled in the courts. JF> If you are stopped and fail to produce proof of insurance, a JF> ticket is issued, go to court, produce proof that insurance JF> was in effect at the time of violation, and it is dismissed. Although the law here says that we are not allowed to drive an uninsured vehicle, I was involved in an accident and had an expired insurance card, it was a copuple of days after expiration. I was allowed to drive away. The ticket issued when you cannot produce a valid Id card is failure to insure the vehicle. It requires a court appearance, and the mandatory penalty is $250 fine and six months loss of license. If you have proof, usually you can contact the court's violations bureau and upon providing proof of insurance, the ticket is downgraded to failure to carry the id card, a $25 fine. JF> Out here, one guy was on vacation for a lengthy period of JF> time, his car was stolen (unknown to him) car was parked in a JF> no parking zone, ticketed, never moved, and impounded. The JF> city sent him proper notification, he never responded within JF> the alloted time, car went to auction. JF> They had auctioned off his car and were a couple past his, In 1991 my second car, a 1980 rabbit, was towed away while I was in the hospital. I had sold the car to someone and held a lien on the tittle. Unknown to me, this girl decided to give me back the car rather than continue the payments, and parked the car in front of my house. After it was there for 72 hours, NJ has a 48 hour abandonment law which is usually not enforced, Two weeks later I come home and didn't know anything was going on. I didn't hear about it until a few months later, when I contacted this girl who I considered to be in arrears and within two days I found the car. By then it was in impound, with a hundred days storage charge attached to it, beyond the worth of the car and way beyond what I was owed. Time and effort to collect anything here wasn't worth it either, so cross off one rabbit. The owner of the towing outfit offered me $75 for the tittle, just so he could avoid the hassle of getting one. I considered the matter closed, I lost what was by then a junker and a half bassed friend of a friend, no loss but it does illustrate what could happen. JF> Never did get it back as the city followed the law to the JF> letter. BTW, he was arrested due to his conduct at the JF> auction. When I was in the towing business quite a few times we would go to pick up a car at pier 76, the NYC tow pound, slightly less than 30 days after it had been towed. Usually these were stolen cars. More often than not we'd find that they had been auctioned already, in spite of the time limit not expiring yet, however I have no idea the disposition of the cases since they then became property of the insurance companies. --- * Origin: The Right Place, Fort Lee, NJ USA(201)947-8231 (1:2604/539.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F1E00011 Date: 01/09/98 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 03:14pm \/To: RONNIE THOMPSON (Read 0 times) Subj: Battery Ronnie Thompson wrote in a message to Mark Logsdon: -=> Quoting Mark Logsdon to Ronnie Thompson <=- RT> RJT> Funny, but I smoke, did the whole three years or so that I had RT> RJT> that battery store, and never had a problem with regard to this. RT> RT> And Michael Kennedy AND Sonny Bono were both considered excellent RT> skiers. They both hit a tree, and died, within the week. ML> We have a crisis on our hands. I propose we ban trees. They're ML> obviously killers. We must chop down all of the trees in the world. ML> If it saves the life of only one child, it will be worth it. ;) RT> Ahhh, the ole' "doin' it for the children" ploy :) RT> Ronnie in NC RT> ... "I tried to contain myself but I escaped." RT> ___ AreaFix Fido MILITIA (I already did.) You guys wanna talk politics, feel free to stop by over in the 10TH_AMD echo, which I moderate. Lots of information posts from me to all:, too. It's not just about the tenth, either, but about _rights_. email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615)