--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00004 Date: 02/09/98 From: SEAN DUNBAR Time: 12:39am \/To: JOHN FAERBER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Oily Plugs JF> this here. What does it mean when a person pulls their JF> plugs andd they are oily, what would that mean? Big $$ If the car's been parked for awhile (overnight or longer) I would suspect valve seals.. ... "Psychopaths... Fiends... Mad dog killers. Roots, Fester." -- Gomez --- Telegard v3.09.g1/mL * Origin: tos * 972-818-0339 - dallas texas (1:124/6630) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00005 Date: 02/11/98 From: JOHN PUMMILL Time: 07:16am \/To: JOHN FAERBER (Read 0 times) Subj: Oily Plugs JF> JF> What does it mean when a person pulls their plugs andd they JF> JF> are oily, what would that mean? Big $$ repairs, or something JF> JF> simple to cure? JF> JP> Sell the farm. Either oil ring on the piston is gone JF> JP> or the valve seals are gone. JF> Would you be referring to the piston rings? Opps, my bad, not clarified. :) Yes, you have compression and oil rings that go around the piston. --- FMail 0.94 * Origin: Running from the Klan in the Fiero (1:123/30) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00006 Date: 02/09/98 From: MARC GERGES Time: 09:16pm \/To: ROY WITT (Read 0 times) Subj: Active Handling Salut Roy! TW>>> Also the RWD car is FAR more forgiving if you push it too hard. MG>> Can't find that. When it comes close (say the car is losing a bit MG>> of traction at the front) and you left you foot of the gas it MG>> comes round with the rear. That's not forgiving in my eyes. RW> If you want to die, that's the way to do it. Otherwise, steer into RW> the drift and feather the throttle. Yes, if you know how to do. I know, and when I'm fresh and concentrated, I can do. But I wouldn't bet on it and my sister or my dad surely wouldn't know what to do. TW>>> BUT the Natual thing to do when yuo find yourself beyong the TW>>> limits is to BACK OFF. MG>> Yes, step off of the accelerator pedal. RW> Never step off. Feather it... Why? I have a forgivin g FWD car. When things happen to fast, I step of the pedal and when it still is to fast I brake. Never had a problem with that, the car is build to make that. cu .\\arc ... An honest politician is one who, when bought, stays bought. --- * Origin: sympathy for the debil (2:270/47) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00007 Date: 02/09/98 From: ROY WITT Time: 05:06pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER TARANA (Read 0 times) Subj: Brakes On, 07 Feb 98 at 21:43, Christopher Tarana was overheard shouting over the engine noise, saying something to Lori Harvey about "Re: Brakes",: LH>> Voyager that my front right brake went out on, and soon after the LH>> whole system went kaputz. Ideas? CT> CT> Lori, there are 2 sets of brakes on a modern car, each has CT> one front wheel and one rear wheel. 1 part of the master cylinder CT> controls the left front and right rear brake, and the other part the CT> right front and left rear brake. This system is called a CT> "Split-Diagonal" system and is designed to allow you to stop the car CT> safely if one of the systems should fail. Is this something new that Mopar has thought up? Or could you be mistaken in your anology and are really speaking of a twin system, each having it's own axle to take care of? Like a normal car... CT> (It's always a good idea to replace brake parts on a per-axle basis CT> if you can't do the whole car at once. Do both front or both back at CT> the same time to prevent related parts from failing and to equalize CT> the wear.) And if the "split-diagonal" system exists, shouldn't you replace everything on all axles? Just wondering... ... C5 Corvette - 0-60 in 4.9 seconds, top speed of 169mph. --- T(W)itt Filter Tossed v1.13 * Origin: Bow Tie Racers, #1, On or Off the Track! (1:202/909.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00008 Date: 02/09/98 From: ROY WITT Time: 05:18pm \/To: JAY EMRIE (Read 0 times) Subj: Vehicle Confiscation On, 06 Feb 98 at 15:33, JAY EMRIE was overheard shouting over the engine noise, saying something to ROY WITT about "Vehicle Confiscation",: RW>> I know a guy there in South Texas that might disagree with you. RW>> He's in the it of making flight checks every time he's about to fly RW>> his airplane. That a habit grows on you if you do it daily. JE> JE> Well, Roy, I, too, was a pilot in WWII, and did exactly that before JE> each take off. What did you fly? JE> I'd bet a dollar to a donut he doesn't do it each and every time JE> BEFORE he drives off in his car! I know I do NOT. Me too...:) ... My 4th Chevy: 1968 Camaro RS/SS 396, in Black/Tourqois. (1968) --- T(W)itt Filter Tossed v1.13 * Origin: (1:202/909.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00009 Date: 02/10/98 From: TOM WALKER Time: 10:27am \/To: ROY WITT (Read 0 times) Subj: Vehicle Confiscation -> -> On, 06 Feb 98 at 10:33, -> TOM WALKER was overheard shouting over the engine noise, saying somet -> to ROY J. TELLASON about "Vehicle Confiscation",: -> -> TW> -> ->> That second method was what I was thinking of. It's still not a -> plea ->> prospect to contemplate trying to find the right wires to -> hook into, ->> though... -> TW> -> TW> small wire. You would need to waterproof the Reed Switch assembli -> -> Why would you bother using a switch? Just being fancy and thinking about a trasnistor switching matrix I guess. You are right an Light emitting diode or Bulb placed in parallel with the light being monitored would be sufficient. :-) --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Jim's East County BBS! El Cajon, CA. (619) 561-8424 (1:202/100) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00010 Date: 02/10/98 From: TOM WALKER Time: 10:43am \/To: DEVIN DIMITRI (Read 0 times) Subj: Active Handling -> Anyway, what exactly is an ice plant? Just a grass -> covered median? It is a relative of the Catus I believe. But is is a very drought tolerant plant that needs little care that at one time was popular for out freeway off ramp areas. And in some places totally lines toe off section of Freeways in populated areas. It is a ground cover type of plant that is mostly water in content like most cactus. I have Black thumb and everything I try to grow dies so I can't describe it much more. But YES we used it in place of Grass here because of it's lack of need fro much watering and it is basically a NO care plant. Except when it expands beyond where you want it, I likes to spread, and you have to cut it back. They don't use it much any more though because even it is too expensive to put in in this day of Taxpayer Revolts. In some areas they are seeding wildflowers. But they only have a limited blooming season nand the areas look like bare dirt the rest of the year. The Blooms, Which are coming out right now are very beautiful though. Incident;y the Ice Plant has a purple flower and looks like purple blankets around the off ramps when they bloom. --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Jim's East County BBS! El Cajon, CA. (619) 561-8424 (1:202/100) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00011 Date: 02/10/98 From: TOM WALKER Time: 10:57am \/To: ALAN MORRISON (Read 0 times) Subj: Buying imports - Banks -> -> And each of these 25 banks has more than the US's largest bank. -> -> (The largest US bank is ranked... 26th!) -> -> TW> And just whose Fault is that? Can you say UNION GOONS that tried -> TW> to accept their UNION CRAP! -> -> There you go again... Let me clean my monitor. 8^) OK... -> -> Post facts, not propoganda. US autoworkers make less than their -> Japanese counterparts. I've posted this before with the source, and -> you return with erroneous personal opinion as if it were fact. That is only a recent event relatively. But I am talking about Production Quality NOT pay. The UNION JUNK Drove the Customers away and Into the Arms of those Willing to Fill the Need for a Quality Car. The Japanese just happened to fill that need, AND not only for Cars but many other products also. With this in mind OF course the Japanese Banks are Much Bigger then ours. That is where the Action is and the MONEY is flowing to for those QUALITY products. I would expect it to be no other way. We had the chance to be the Quality Supplier to the World. BUT THE UNION GOONS killed it!!! And right NOW they are Fighting with ALL THEIR power to SCREW up the Honda plant which puts out about the BEST Quality Car Assembled OR built here by Organizing it. -> TW> As soon as any American car manufacturer put outs anything of any -> TW> Quality and vAlue of a Japanese car I will buy it. -> -> When you make unsubstantiated blanket statements like this, your -> credibility suffers. It's time for a change from repeating the same -> old tired, uninformed, propoganda. The same people who said -> Americans were lazy, now have some cars made here by them and you -> claim they are built better? Give it up! Hey I can't afford to Throw my money away on JUNK. I buy fro QUALITY no matter Who makes it. And Sadly right now for Automobiles it is Japanese. And as far as those Americans producing the Quality Cars here please NOTE thy are NON UNION!!! And Look bach at the VW experience where they STUPIDLY thought you Could make a Compact with the "DEVIL"*the Autoworkers Union). It ALL but Destroyed their Sales in the United states and were ONLY saved from Pulling of the US market out by HEAVY advertizing of the "Wolfsburg" Models!! And they had to Walk away from their "Union Factory" in Pa because it was such a Disaster. How is that for FACT!! -> We've always made better trucks, and large cars, while they have in -> the past made some better small cars. While we have made great -> strides of advancement in small car design, some just won't admit -> it. A Saturn is a match for others in its class and now has higher -> resale and owner satisfaction than you're beloved Toyota. Let us -> know which Saturn you get, I hear the DOHC versions are quite sporty. BS the SATURN is NO real Match for a Quality car when compared to any Toyota Model. In fact the standing Joke is that the Saturn is a very Fine 1987 HONDA but Who wants to buy a 1987 car. And as far as Large cars go surely you are Joking. Popular Mechanics of Popular Science some years back Rated the VERY EXPENSIVE Cadillac Eldorado, the one with the Northstar engine, LOWER in over all quality than the Saturn. Which they remarked itself lacked the Quality of some of the Japanese competition. And as a side note just why is you BELOVED UNION fighting so hard to prevent Saturn from Expanding? The Saturn project was set up as a Test model of a NEW way to build cars. And I will admit that it had had some success. But remember the Basic Core of that success were Concessions that the UNION was required to make. The UNION plainly made sure though that the Saturn facility was as small as possible. In fact the capacity of the plant is only at the Break Even Level. IE; GM only really makes Money when it is running at FULL capacity. Which until Recently it has never done because of disappointing sales. FUELED by the way by the CRAPPY and very Noisy and rough running base engine compared the even the CHEAPEST Foreign Model cars. As her production capacity because inadequate GM approached the UNION about a possibility of using the Saturn Project in another plant to increase capacity. the UNION FLATLY Said NO!!! So give me your Best Guess, JUST WHO is the BIG roadblock to quality and FORCING the American people to accept their CRAPPY low quality automobiles? Just face it we are our own Worst Enemy. --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Jim's East County BBS! El Cajon, CA. (619) 561-8424 (1:202/100) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00012 Date: 02/10/98 From: TOM WALKER Time: 10:58am \/To: ROY J. TELLASON (Read 0 times) Subj: Vehicle Confiscation -> Reed switches? You lost me here... A device that operates by magnetic force. It is typically a metal Reed in a sealed evacuated glass envelope that is operated either by bring a magnet near it or enclosing it in a coil so it will operate whenever current passes through the coil. They typical require such a small magnetic field that the Voltage drop of the coil is negligible and the device can be placed in series with a current carrying wire. --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Jim's East County BBS! El Cajon, CA. (619) 561-8424 (1:202/100) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F2F00013 Date: 02/11/98 From: JOHN FAERBER Time: 01:44am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Radio Antenna Came out of the bowling center just a few minutes ago, my antenna did not go down when I shut off the engine, (87 Sedan Deville) The antenna motor is still running and cannot figure out where the conector is to shut it off. Is it to the point that it now has to be repalcd, and what kind of $ am I looking at for it? Also, where is the connector to shut off the antenna motor as i figure it will drain the battery if it sits any length of time. --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: * MacSavvy OS/2 BBS * Dallas, Texas * 972-250-4479 * (1:124/1208)