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From: Noddy on 15 May 2010 09:13 "Atheist Chaplain" <abused(a)cia.gov> wrote in message news:4bee94ed$1(a)news.x-privat.org... > Its the method that is used to train drivers in the Army, just stand on > the brakes in an emergency stop. > Works on everything from the lowly Rover to the biggest recovery vehicle. Yep. Doesn't get any more basic than that, but you'll go blue in the face trying to explain it to these budding world champions. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: Feral on 15 May 2010 17:09 Atheist Chaplain wrote: > Its the method that is used to train drivers in the Army, just stand on > the brakes in an emergency stop. > Works on everything from the lowly Rover to the biggest recovery vehicle. > And if you're sweeping around a bend at speed on a narrow, wet road and there's a semi-jack-knifed across the road and you discover your slave cylinder has done it's last duty .... What's the teaching .... pray ....????? You may think that's extreme, but wet road, on a bend, you have to stop, locking up your rears and stalling the engine will do what .... pull you up in a straight line - into the gums. You're as bad as the other two if you think the "lock-er-up" tactic will ease the pain in *all* situations. I'm sure if everyone tried they could think of a few situations. The Bruce Highway (at night, in the rain and wind, with the trucks and the straying cattle), is just one example of where you want your mechanicals, tyres, lights, wipers, etc to be spot on. Who's for a drive from Childers to Gin Gin through the fog, wind and rain and have our scenario happen on a bend in the mountains? NSW Rego Inspections work in the majority of cases and it keeps most people honest. Who keeps Vic's and Qld's drivers honest. Oh, themselves. Of course inspections can't stop the idiots who take their mates tyres off and put their own bald ones back on afterwards, or the interstate idiots, but they find things that ordinary "mum, dad and art students" wouldn't find. I say art students, because I don't want to offend Athol, just like he wouldn't like to offend Noddy or Daz. -- Take Care. ~~ Feral Al ( @..@) (\- :-P -/) ((.>__oo__<.)) ^^^ % ^^^
From: Feral on 15 May 2010 17:12 Atheist Chaplain wrote: > "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote in message > news:4bee85e9$0$67495$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... >> >> "jonz" <fj40(a)deisel.com> wrote in message >> news:4beddf55$1(a)dnews.tpgi.com.au... >> >>> a much more worthy occupation than trying to talk sense to the >>> senseless................ >> >> It never really ends, does it? >> >> On and on and on and on, the irony just keeps *flooding* in..... > I think they are all sharing the brain cell between them this last week :-) > And of course, Bighead, Daz "Elite" and now you, have the backing of .......... -- Take Care. ~~ Feral Al ( @..@) (\- :-P -/) ((.>__oo__<.)) ^^^ % ^^^
From: John_H on 15 May 2010 18:40 D Walford wrote: > >What's not easy about stopping a manual vehicle without using the clutch? What's the chances of an impending hydraulic failure being picked up by an annual roadworthy inspection in any case? A slave cylinder is likely to weep for a week or two before the reservoir runs out of fluid but a failed primary cup in the master cylinder is an equally common cause of failure and typically exhibits no externally visible signs whatsoever. With the bottom line being that the vast majority of those destined to die from clutch failure aren't likely to be saved by an annual inspection! :) -- John H
From: Feral on 15 May 2010 19:32
John_H wrote: > What's the chances of an impending hydraulic failure being picked up > by an annual roadworthy inspection in any case? Good. > A slave cylinder is likely to weep for a week or two before the > reservoir runs out of fluid but a failed primary cup in the master > cylinder is an equally common cause of failure and typically exhibits > no externally visible signs whatsoever. Bad. > With the bottom line being that the vast majority of those destined to > die from clutch failure aren't likely to be saved by an annual > inspection! :) > Mine was and I'm happy to say it was just before I ventured into your backward state. :-P Ugly. -- Take Care. ~~ Feral Al ( @..@) (\- :-P -/) ((.>__oo__<.)) ^^^ % ^^^ |