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that's exactly what made me judge that guy for deciding to just roll with only having first and fifth, but then I thought maybe it's different for manuals
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InediblePenguin posted:that's exactly what made me judge that guy for deciding to just roll with only having first and fifth, but then I thought maybe it's different for manuals Well, it's his life. If he thinks he can get along with only 1st and 5th, more power to him.
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Aug 17, 2017 03:16
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Deteriorata posted:Well, it's his life. If he thinks he can get along with only 1st and 5th, more power to him. In that situation I'd be more concerned about having enough torque.
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Aug 17, 2017 03:33
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Power is a function of torque.
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Aug 17, 2017 03:57
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What's the worst case, he grenades his transmission and has to buy one anyway?
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Aug 17, 2017 04:26
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In my first car 20 years ago, a 1988 Ford Escort GL, the linkage snapped a few weeks after i got it, and I lost second and fourth gears for a few weeks til i had money to get it fixed. It was more annoying than you'd think. I can't imagine driving on normal roads with just 1st and 5th.
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Aug 17, 2017 04:56
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GutBomb posted:My car has like, no acceleration or engine braking at regular road speeds in 6th, I only ever hit 5th and 6th on the highway. Am I not supposed to be using 4th when I'm cruising around on surface streets at 30-40mph? InediblePenguin posted:that's exactly what made me judge that guy for deciding to just roll with only having first and fifth, but then I thought maybe it's different for manuals
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You know how to jazz up a trip through eastern oregon? Get stuck behind an oblivious dickhead in a land yacht wavering between 10-15 mph below the limit! People that do this can gently caress off forever. They drove past several pullouts, plus a state trooper, and nothing ever changed. Does Oregon not have laws about moving over if three or more vehicles are behind you?
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Aug 17, 2017 05:30
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xzzy posted:Does Oregon not have laws about moving over if three or more vehicles are behind you? These laws exists anywhere?
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Aug 17, 2017 05:35
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Just about every state has a 5 car pull out rule or equivalent.
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Aug 17, 2017 05:40
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PSA: If you drive an RV on the PCH, you're almost certainly an rear end in a top hat or an idiot.
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xzzy posted:Does Oregon not have laws about moving over if three or more vehicles are behind you? I recall seeing signs to that effect in ID and WA, never in OR that I know of. I wish, though.
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wolrah posted:
If it's a V8, and has the 545RFE? Though it's the 4 speed 42RE on the 4.0 that's the delicate one?
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Javid posted:What's the worst case, he grenades his transmission and has to buy one anyway? Well worst case is it leads to an crasg with multiple fatalities. But mechanically, I would worry about the health of the engine.
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maybe he wasn't the grand cherokee and i'm mixing him up with the guy who needed tie rods and was not unreasonable about it, sorry, long day plus I'm kinda stupid
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I was going to say “perhaps it’s been converted to a portable air tank”, but then I saw the powder on the ground.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Just about every state has a 5 car pull out rule or equivalent. Really? This is something I've heard since high school and it always sounds like an urban legend.
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Relevant California vehicle code: "Vehicle Code - VEH DIVISION 11. RULES OF THE ROAD [21000 - 23336] ( Division 11 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. ) CHAPTER 3. Driving, Overtaking, and Passing [21650 - 21759] ( Chapter 3 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. ) ARTICLE 1. Driving on Right Side [21650 - 21664] ( Article 1 enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3. ) 21656. On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, any vehicle proceeding upon the highway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time, behind which five or more vehicles are formed in line, shall turn off the roadway at the nearest place designated as a turnout by signs erected by the authority having jurisdiction over the highway, or wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit the vehicles following it to proceed. (Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 265, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2016.)"
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Phanatic posted:Really? This is something I've heard since high school and it always sounds like an urban legend. Alaska is pretty good about both providing a lot of turn outs for slo-mos and posting copious signs reminding people to use them.
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Phanatic posted:Really? This is something I've heard since high school and it always sounds like an urban legend. Every state I've been in (10ish) has signs at least.
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Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, they don't exist
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I work with an idiot that fancies himself The Ultimate Car Guy. He drives a sixties lead sled and today I had to get a ride with him. We back out of his parking spot and... we keep going back. We can't go forward. He tries to row the shifter, no good. He explains that sometimes his car gets stuck in Reverse. He then stomps on the gas and does a reverse burnout in the parking lot, we fly backward about 40 feet and he brakes hard and then throws it into first and away we go. Surely this is something The Ultimate Car Guy could fix.
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Dick Trauma posted:I work with an idiot that fancies himself The Ultimate Car Guy. He drives a sixties lead sled and today I had to get a ride with him. Why? To be less awesome?
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Yeah, that sounds pretty badass. Impractical, for sure, but this isn't Automotive Sanity and Safety.
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Someone's never had an old car
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nsaP posted:Someone's never had an old car Not empty quoting.
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Once upon a time I unplugged my battery and hauled it into the house a couple times a week to charge it up while trying to figure out why the charging system wasn't working. This lasted for two months because 
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xzzy posted:Once upon a time I unplugged my battery and hauled it into the house a couple times a week to charge it up while trying to figure out why the charging system wasn't working.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:...you know trickle chargers are like $20 right? I do now. I was 20! And had no internet.
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xzzy posted:I do now. I was 20! There's a trick I used on my old '67 chev called 'battery bootstrapping'. Weak battery, cold weather, turn the headlights on for 3 seconds before you crank it. It seems counter-intuitive, but it worked.
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dee eight posted:There's a trick I used on my old '67 chev called 'battery bootstrapping'. Weak battery, cold weather, turn the headlights on for 3 seconds before you crank it. It seems counter-intuitive, but it worked. Maybe that warmed up the battery a bit. They sell battery heaters for cold weather use. You consume the battery power to heat up the battery so that the battery would have more power to crank your engine. And apparently it works!
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Some dumb fucker today merged right into me without looking. I was able to slam the brakes and dive into the curb to avoid them, and laid on the horn. Missed them by about an inch or two tops, I think. Now my front left wheel has curb rash on it  People switching lanes without looking drives me god drat batty. I was right next to him, maybe my front bumper was a foot behind his front bumper.
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shortspecialbus posted:Some dumb fucker today merged right into me without looking. I was able to slam the brakes and dive into the curb to avoid them, and laid on the horn. Missed them by about an inch or two tops, I think. Now my front left wheel has curb rash on it If they were right next to me, I wouldn't risk causing another accident (like the single vehicle accident hitting the curb, which I'm then liable for), I'd just honk maybe brake a bit and if they hit then that's what happens. I wonder how fault would be assigned.
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Michael Scott posted:If they were right next to me, I wouldn't risk causing another accident (like the single vehicle accident hitting the curb, which I'm then liable for), I'd just honk maybe brake a bit and if they hit then that's what happens. I wonder how fault would be assigned. That's why you have a dash cam. Right?
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Michael Scott posted:If they were right next to me, I wouldn't risk causing another accident (like the single vehicle accident hitting the curb, which I'm then liable for), I'd just honk maybe brake a bit and if they hit then that's what happens. I wonder how fault would be assigned. I've had 2 collisions with other cars in my life. First was 25 years ago and probably my fault but no damage done to the other car . The second was 3 years ago and in the same circumstance as described. I braked, honked and swerved a bit (up to the kerb but no further) but otherwise let them hit me. They were at fault so I got tyres replaced on the left with rim repaired (hit the left gutter) and all the right side panels repaired where they hit me. If I tried any harder to avoid collision I might have hit a power/tele pole and for what? They drive off none the wiser? I let the idiot hit me and they stop because then I wouldn't be up for sole costs, and it was only a 10 y/o commodore I was driving anyway. If your life isn't in danger don't swerve and become a single vehicle crash victim. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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Dick Trauma posted:Surely this is something The Ultimate Car Guy could fix.
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I spent last week driving the northern half of PCH in a rental Civic and was utterly shocked that almost every time I came up behind another vehicle they would pull off into one of the millions of pull-off areas to let me pass. Mostly shocked because we don't have pull-off areas like that anywhere in Michigan and even if we did, nobody driving around here would give a flying gently caress if they held up cars behind them. Also, this was my first time driving a car in like 10 years, we only have suvs, but I had a total blast bombing around the northern PCH in that Civic and now I totally see the appeal of being able to fling something lightweight like that around on breathtaking roads like that. Totally useless here, but super fun there.
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InitialDave posted:Cobbler's kids go barefoot. Also, most classic car guys consider automatic transmissions to be black magic (including myself, because I've never had to learn about them), so he probably wouldn't be able to trivially fix it. Although TH400s (or whatever) are not exactly uncommon in junkyards.
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