- 1. Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: Eric <eric@erickson.on.net>
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:51:04 +0000
- Searching the 'Net to help out a friend of mine with BMW break problems (and who seems incapable of using a search engine - but that is another story) and I bump into the following statement. "The on
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- 2. Re: Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:41:04 -0700
- Interesting. He may be overstating the case for rhetorical effect, but basically that is how I feel about brake pedals, too. Look at it this way: there are two feedback mechanisms available for modul
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00027.html (11,606 bytes)
- 3. RE: Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: "Garner, Joseph P." <JPGarner@UCDavis.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:56:23 -0700
- As with drinks, and one or two other things i'm sure, the stiffer the ;-) Joe ___________________________ Dr. Joseph Garner University of California Department of Animal Science One Shields Avenue Da
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- 4. Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: "Simon Matthews" <simon_atwork@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 01:17:30 GMT
- If you want to feel stiff brakes, drive a Citroen with the Hydropneumatic (or whatever they spelled/called it). The pedal is rock solid because there is a feedback mechanism which equalises the pedal
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00055.html (8,076 bytes)
- 5. Re: Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: Geoffrey Gallaway <geoffeg@sloth.org>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:50:43 -0400 (EDT)
- This is also true on my father's 90 Range Rover, rock hard brakes. The first time I hit the brakes when the ABS engaged and the pedal started to vibrate I became very scared. Seems to stop the vehicl
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00056.html (8,784 bytes)
- 6. Re: Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 10:35:01 -0600 (MDT)
- I think this is somewhat elementary, but I have been known to state the, somewhat, obvious. Heel and Toe works best when the gas pedal is next to the brake at the level of braking that the shift happ
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00092.html (9,350 bytes)
- 7. Re: Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: Ajhsys@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:41:23 EDT
- << Heel and Toe works best when the gas pedal is next to the brake at the level of braking that the shift happens at. >> - - - - - - - - - - - Let me guess. You are an English major? (Sorry, I couldn
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00121.html (7,372 bytes)
- 8. Re: Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 14:53:06 -0600 (MDT)
- no, mechanical engineer and software engineer, it is my job to make stuff, not to explain it. Thanks for the critique Allen. James Nazarian '71 B roadster '71 BGT ever so slowly turning into a V8 '63
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00122.html (8,121 bytes)
- 9. Re: Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: David Littlefield <dmeadow@juno.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:14:57 -0500
- Reminds me of a story... A Texan gets into Harvard (it happens). On his first day on campus he is wandering around trying to get oriented. He gets a bit lost and buttonholes a passing student. "Hey y
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00132.html (9,286 bytes)
- 10. RE: Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: Duinhoven_Hans@emc.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:28:23 -0400
- My BGT just was tested and the guy who did this claimed the brakes to be I explained this comes from the fact I had silicone brake fluid used instead of the normal fluid. The brakes passed the test w
- /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00237.html (8,607 bytes)
- 11. Re: Stiff Brakes (score: 1)
- Author: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 19:40:42 -0500
- Er, here in Texas that's an Aggie joke. CR
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