Hi John McEwen!!
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, John McEwen wrote:
> >>My brake problems took a turn for the worse ... now the servo wheezes and
>the
> >>pedal goes soft. Not really driveable!<snipped>
This means he's either a. driven it like this, or b. is considering
driving it like this. NOT a good idea...
> >Good god man!
This is just a genteel way of attracting someone's attention...
> >You've lost your brakes, have a soft pedal and brake fluid leaking out of
>your
> >master cylinder. Yet you STILL insist on thinking it must be the *booster*?!
> >booster!?!
Well, maybe he didn't understand what the booster does...
> >What is it going to take for you to recognize that your master cylinder
> >has failed?
The most common last two words recorded by the crashed aircraft cockpit
recorders, reguardless of native language, are "Ohh Shit!". (Transport
Canada). Sometimes recognition comes a little too late...
> Ah Nolan. Perhaps your subtle suggestion that the man is an idiot will do
IMHO, anyone who screws around with defective brakes is an idiot. You
can fool around with a lot of other things and never hurt anyone else...
> the trick. It must be a bit disconcerting for someone to realize that his
> questions are too basic to warrant a civil answer. If he knew the answer
This is a SAFETY issue. He could take someone else with him!!!
> he wouldn't have asked. Now he probably will be afraid to do so.
Nonsense!! If he's been reading this newsgroup, he knows that we are
all here to help each other, and he's seen a lot of very basic questions
answered both well, and civilly.
A lot of guys I talk to slept through their high school physics classes,
on the theory that nothing in the course would ever apply to their
everyday life. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Case in point: double the weight of a vehicle, and it takes TWICE as
much braking power to stop it. Double the speed, and it takes FOUR
times as much braking power to stop it... Lots of people never get it
TTUL8r, Kirk Cowen
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