Simultaneous Application of Gas and Brake Pedals

But those were indeed CHRYSLER transmissions.

If you said, "I hear mid-70s AMC transmissions were trouble prone," I'd
say, "Which do you mean? The GM-built Hydramatic in the full-size Jeep
trucks, Cherokee, and Wagoneer, or the Chrysler-built TorqueCommand in
the cars?"

 

Actually disks don't take more fluid because while drum brakes retract
fully against their adjuster stops via springs, disk brakes only
"retract" as far as rotor runout pushes them. So the volume of fluid
that moves is typically less with disk brakes, which is why front
disk/rear drum braking systems typically have a hold-off or pressure
balance valve that prevents the disks from activating until some fluid
has been pushed toward the rear drum brakes and the shoes actually begin
to engage the drums.

 

I guess I chose a bad example then. But *IF* the Chrysler trannies were
made by a third party, then people still would understand if the
statement were made as I said it.

I think this horse is dead about three times over. Thanks for your
sensible discussion on this.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

But you adjust your drum brakes at every chassis lube interval... right?

nate

 

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of - also used by Studebaker as the
"Flightomatic" or "Powershift."

nate

 

This is/was common in European vehicles - but is NOT universally true.

The cap and rotor, yes. The distributor itself, no.
Both alternators and distributors CAN be very specific to a very
limited range of vehicles.

And I've been a (Canadian interprovincial)licenced auto mechanic since
1971 and was service manager for a Toyota dealer for 10 of those
years.

can make some young squirts overconfident.

 

I guess that's why it stuck out with me... AMC is a company that NEVER
made their own automatic. Its not as if they made some and bought some,
they literally never developed one, and thats one of the many oddities
about AMC.

Come to think of it, one of them WAS made by a third party for many
years, ending only recently. The Jeep Cherokee (not Grand) had an
Asin-Warner automatic, never a Chrysler.

True enough....

 

Nate Nagel wrote:

So long as the starwheels aren't buggered up, I adjust them every time I
stop while driving in reverse

 

Unless the vehicle is one of many that adjusts the brakes every time
you apply the parking brake --------