LONG LIVE RED CHINA (Would you like your troll mein with soft or crispy noodles?)

12/26/05 | C.L. Gartman

[Irish_Thatcherite]

They have a statist fetish....

[Darksheare]

Not to my knowledge.

But the car did toss the exhaust system at the repair guys the last time they got it up on the lift.

[Monkey Face]

Key off. Foot on the brake. Try and shift into first, then back into neutral. Do this a couple times. If it catches, its the reverse lockout switch...

Does this work for a standard trans?

[Darksheare]

Sounds like the starter.
Sounds like what happened with the 1990 Geo Metro where the starter brushes arc cut a gouge into the starter commutator thingy and would only crank at certain starter positions.
(Sometimes letting it sit a bit would get it to start.)

[Monkey Face]

OK. I'll get the tune-up first, and if necessary, wait a day to have the alignment. Thanks for all the help, guys!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I never knew you had manual transmission in America, I thought all cars are automatics.

[Dead Corpse]

Actually, my 1970 Delta 88 Sport had the ignition switch go toes up in it. That thar was a finicky vehicle. My Dad called it a "rolling death trap that has way too much horsepower for it's own good" after I let him borrow it to make it in to work one night. Coming from a Sheriff's Deputy of 20-some odd years of patrol experience I took it as a sign I needed to port the heads a bit more.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Afternoon or morning, folks...flu-ey greetings from rain logged Utah....

[stephenjohnbanker]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....... could be a distant cousin.

[Baraonda]

Thanks.

That's easy to remember: a 3 at the end points and a couple of 5s and 1s in the middle. All one has to rember basically is a 3 a 5 and a 1. It's also precise to 5 decimal points.

[Dead Corpse]

Does this work for a standard trans?

Specifically for.

[Dead Corpse]

I thought all cars are automatics.

Good Gods no. Where would the fun in that be?

[Dead Corpse]

Rain? I remember rain. I'm fairly certain it rained once here.

[Monkey Face]

This is a pickup truck, and it has a four-speed, though I would have preferred a 5-speed for the overdrive. (I've driven automatics, but I prefer standard.) And you can get any combination you want...including a diesel engine with whatever tranny...the car builders LOVE special orders!

[Monkey Face]

OK...I'll copy it, paste it and print it...

[stephenjohnbanker]

"I never knew you had manual transmission in America, I thought all cars are automatics."

Hmmmmmmm now I don't feel so bad about Tsue Nammie!

[Darksheare]

LOL!

Mom's Audi A4 2.8 is somewhat 'too much car' for my experience.
You hit the accel pedal slightly, and the thing is rocketing off.
(5 valves per...)

Quite surprising for a station wagon, and quite a nasty surprise for the kids in the Honda Civics.

Had a VW Dasher with a bad ignition switch.
It would do odd stuff like make the lights go nuts and various other inexplicable things.
All from a little 3 buck at most switch.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

True, in Britain and Ireland the vast majority of cars are manual, I have seen about 2-3 automatic cars in my life!!

[Baraonda]

"A broken egg is in a more stable state than is was before it broke, it's entropy increased when it broke."

This entropy stuff is difficult to digest and retain.

[Darksheare]

The car is quite a sight.
Oxidised hood roof and trunk.
Somebodys footprint smashed into the passenger front fender, and a rock dent from some punk named Eduardo in the drivers front fender.

But, it suits me.
Frayed around the edges, just like me.