Brake fluid in power steering?

[Xeno]

Make that 1989 with the Subaru Justy. My recall was wrong.

1927 Clyno.

Note, all current forms of CVT seem to exclusively use a *push belt*.

[Commander Kinsey]

So you have cops annoying drivers when they could be doing something useful. A better command structure is required I think.

So they hire traffic cops, brilliant.

Descendants of criminals? Criminals we stupidly decided to send to a nicer country than our own.

It's similar childish pedantry.

They both mean "a smaller amount of".

They will never get in if everyone thinks like you. But if 10% of you vote for party C, then the next year more will follow once they see there's a chance.

You might aswell use your vote on the lesser party if you aren't voting for the major ones.

Funny how they do speed matching then. I've had many many speeding tickets, they're all from stationary cops, or ones travelling at my speed precisely.

Those are easy for me to see.

It can't go round corners.

Almost none of those here without livery.

No, more fool you lot for allowing yours to catch you.

So a pointless piece of equipment then.

Huh? If I can ignore it, then it might aswell not be there, yet another waste of time and money by the meddling EU.

[Rod Speed]

Everyone does.

Nothing to do with the command structure.

The cops do everything, they don't have cops that only do traffic.

Nope, f*ck all are descendents of criminals.

It mostly did stop them doing any more crime on that soggy little frigid island that grovels to Trump now.

Wrong, as always. And kids don't do that.

Wrong, as always.

They will never get to be the govt even if they don't think like me.

Doesn't work like that.

No point in voting for any party.

They obviously can't when the hoon is coming the other way.

Who obviously can't be speed matching.

You have no way of knowing that they did match precisely.

Not when the range is so good that all you ever see is some car in the far distance.

Doesn't need to and it can and does go around corners.

Livery is no use when its so far way that all you can see is that it is a vehicle of some sort.

Not possible to avoid that when its around a corner so you cant even see that there is a car there until you pass it and get booked.

Nope, it does warn you that you have exceeded the speed limit accidentally.

Wrong with accidentally exceeding the speed limit or the sign has been knocked over or obscured etc.

[Clare Snyder]

The 68RFE and alisson are both bandless - I'm sure there are others.

[Clare Snyder]

Like the DAF? CVT and Positraction in one device - - -

[rbowman]

The cheap version is a plate that closes off the exhaust.

A Jacobs engine brake modifies the valve train.

The second link briefly explains why diesels don't have engine braking. There is no throttle butterfly to cut off the intake air. Power output is controlled by the injectors.

I've used both. A Blue Ox is a lot better than nothing but not as good as a real Jake. It may have changed but a lot of eastern flatlander trucks didn't have either. You could tell them by the smoking brakes as they came down a six or seven mile grade.

[Clare Snyder]

Some automotive diesels were "comprpmozed" by the addition of a throttle valve. The reasons for using a throttle valver are EGR and anti-shudder on shut-down.

Toyota kd and gd engines have a throttle plate. VW Audi group 1.5, 1.6 and 2 liter common rail TDI engines have throttle plates. Fiat 1.6 MJD has a plate while the 1.3 does not.

Chevy Cruze diesel has a plate.

I'd guess MANY late model diesels do - but it is only for egr (emissions) and shut-down . Might help stop a runaway if a turbo seal lets go (if you shut it off) but otherwize has no "throttling" effect

- never shuts with the engine running.

In 1982 and 82 MB 240D had a throttle - I believe only for those 2 years. There was an air flow sensor? vane in some early seventies MBs

- part of the injection system - and likely the only one that MIGHT have provided engine braking.

[Xeno]

The throttle valve, on older diesels at least, was part of the pneumatic governor system. In the CAV pneumatic governor, speed regulation is based upon the principle of using the vacuum in the air intake to operate the control rack of the fuel pump.

The vane is a sensor only, an air flow measuring device, not a throttle as such. As air flow increases, it opens proportionately. It therefore does not develop a manifold vacuum in the same sense as a throttle plate would when closed on decel.

[Commander Kinsey]

Are you serious?! If you drive a diesel car and drop a gear without pressing the accelerator, you will slow down, just like in a petrol car. You have to, you're spinning the engine without applying fuel, taking power from the motion of the vehicle. There is absolutely no reason a diesel would be different to a petrol.

[Xeno]

What you're talking about is *pumping losses* and all engines have that. What is being referred to is *intake restriction*, which generally doesn't exist on a diesel because you control the *amount* of fuel injected, as has been stated. With a petrol engine you control the airflow with a throttle plate.

Diesel engines fitted with a Jacobs Brake maximise the use of pumping losses by exhausting the compressed air in the cylinder at TDC so that it is no longer available to push back on the piston in the nature of a spring on *rebound*.

[rbowman]

If you drive a diesel slowing down is not the problem... Too bad when VW finally made a diesel car engine that wasn't an absolute pig the Euronannies got on their case.

Like I said, and Clare confirmed, automotive diesels are different than large truck diesels like the Detroit 60 series.

[Commander Kinsey]

Indeed, although my 1998 1.9 TDI auto was fine. I got 0-60 in about 7 or 8 seconds.

I guess you need high revs to have effective engine braking. With the narrow band of allowed revs on big trucks, you just can't do that.

Hang on, you said "truck". I thought truck in America meant 4x4, as in something you have at home with about a 3 or 4 litre engine.

[Commander Kinsey]

Well every diesel car I've owned has equal engine braking to a petrol, just by lifting my foot off the gas and dropping a gear. So either you're wrong, or they all had Jacobs brakes built in.

[Commander Kinsey]

That's what I was referring to. They don't seem to be able to distinguish between that and the things that carry 50 tonnes.

[Rod Speed]

They do actually. They often call those 18 wheelers or semis.

[Commander Kinsey]

Well they're wrong. A truck or lorry has 18 wheels. Just like pants don't have legs.

[Rod Speed]

Nope.

Plenty of trucks or lorrys don't.

Nothing like.

[Xeno]

A Jacobs Brake is a complex mechanism that I have only encountered on large diesel trucks. Small diesels have an exhaust baffle if they have anything at all. Both types require explicit activation.

[Commander Kinsey]

Then I guess a small diesel can engine brake as normal anyway.

[Xeno]

That's not a truck! This is a truck;

A 4x4 with a 3 or 4 litre engine? That's a toy.