In the early 00’s I had a 1989 Cherokee with the Bendix 9 ABS system. That thing was a pile of garbage. Bendix decided to forego the typical vacuum brake booster and instead had the ABS module apply the brake assist. Imagine how an ABS system would age if it had to operate every time you applied the brakes instead of just every time a real ABS event was required. That’s exactly how this thing aged. Every 8-or-so key cycles I’d start it up and the ABS indicator would light, and I wouldn’t have brake assist. Lovely. I’d have to shut it down and start it again hoping the ABS would act properly that time.
I bought snow tires and wheels for our ’17 Sienna with TPMS sensors. Sorry, Toyota only “knows” one set of sensors at a time, therefore you must get it reprogrammed every time at the dealer, which negates any time or cost savings with dedicated snow tires and wheels.
In the system shown in the patent application, a sensor is mounted on the clutch pedal which send an electronic signal to an actuator mounted on the electronic slave cylinder in the transmission in order to move the clutch plate. This allows for installation of transmission far away from the clutch pedal without worry of a long hydraulic line.
(4/tie) Yamaha YZ450F, Kawasaki KX450 and Suzuki RM-Z450. The Big Four sat on their hands as KTM and Husky pulled away in the brake race. They just kept selling the same-old, same-old for a decade. Finally, rather than start from scratch, they dropped their 250mm rotors for bigger 270mm front rotors. The 270mm rotors did increase braking power; but, without redesigned calipers, the newfound power didn’t come with much control.
Since the work has been done up front, there are no additional emissions tests required once the construction is complete. This approach also ensures the engine and aftertreatment system work together and last over the life of the vessel. Under the Scheme A approach, the order process is unchanged for the customer using a local Cummins distributor as a single point of contact for the IMO Tier 3 system.
There are volumes of material written on setting up the TV cable, and if you get it right, the system works great. But the difficulty comes in setting up the linkage adjustments to accomplish this task. It is not easy, and when misadjusted even slightly, the price is generally a wasted set of 3-4 clutches – an expensive repair. The internet is saturated with sad stories of burned up 700R4 transmissions whose only fault was a poorly adjusted TV cable.
Since William Durant founded General Motors in 1908, the local market knew something was going on in the early going and it was going to be good. His talent and innovative spirit guided the automaker to switch from simply making horse-drawn carriages, to designing and building automobiles that pushed the envelope. In a few years, GM acquired more than twenty companies that delivered household vehicle names including Pontiac, Oldsmobile and the Cadillac. Soon enough, public demand grew, energized by the cars manufactured by GM, and thus its mission statement "A Car for Every Purse and Purpose" was coined.
The application was dug up on Friday by automotive errata super sleuth Bozi Tatarevic over at Jalopnik. It describes a "clutch-by-wire" system that would essentially use a servo and a potentiometer (like an e-throttle in a modern engine) to operate a vehicle’s clutch. It’s an exciting idea, and I’ll explain why.
I reached out to Matt over the phone to learn about what happened. He told me that he was at an off-road fundraiser for autism in Pottsville, Pennsylvania in his two-door 2011 Jeep Wrangler, when traffic started to slow. The group in front of him was having trouble traversing one of the most difficult obstacles on the relatively mild “advanced green” trail; particularly, the white Chevy ZR2 was struggling to find the right line up and over a rock.
I was under the impression that certain companies that worked with manufacturers could have their products covered under standard warranties (like Roush for example). With the introduction of these new safety systems, many of those same aftermarket suppliers were no longer able to provide that even on models that had been previously allowed to be covered under warranty (ie Tacoma/Tundra)
" Had complete brake failure. Was able to get the truck stopped. Saw it was 2 pints low on fluid. Added fluid, drove towards my auto shop, had to stop to fill the brake fluid again (the light went on this time). Did this a few times. Just before I got to the stop, the truck blew out some smoke, chugged, and the motor seized up. Towed the truck to the shop, they found out the master cylinder leaked and the vacuum lines sucked the brake fluid out of the master cylinder and dumped it into the cylinders in the motor and this blew my motor. I hear there is a recall for this on 2014 F-150S but not on the 2011. Terrible design. A brake problem should not blow up my motor." – Aug 11, 2018
Do you read? Nowhere did anyone state that defensive driving would prevent ALL collisions. Accidents are just that… Accidents, often unprevantable. Most of the time it does not matter who is responsible in an accident unless there is willful negligence.
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