[Shop-talk] Craftsman impact set and Suburban issues

[Karl Vacek]

She grew up driving pickups and tractors in the South, so she can handle the 
Suburban, and she's driven most of the 160,000 miles since we bought it used 
10 years ago.  And she's got both a Midget and a motorcycle license, so 
she's sensitive to smaller vehicles.

Seriously - drive an older Suburban and tell me there's some way to safely 
handle the brakes other than increasing your interval behind the car ahead - 
drastically.  With the way people drive nowadays it's hard, but we have to 
do it.  Ever notice that the lever that used to be called the turn signal 
lever is now the "please speed up and cut me off" lever ?  That gets us to 
the back of the pack real fast...


> Likely this doesn't affect Jill; but I've noticed that most SUV drivers
> around here pay no attention to the fact they are driving a 3 ton truck 
> with
> a high center of gravity, rather than a 1 ton car with a low center of
> gravity.
>
> Randall