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:rolleyes: more seriously, though, due to differences in the crust of the earth and the "squished" deviance from an actual sphere due to spinning, there is a roughly 1/2% difference on the surface between the the strongest and weakest gravity. My high school Physics teacher told us about a...

The mind boggles at the potential backstories leading to coming up with a policy about such things! :crackup:

These days, it's that if you buy a car wash, you only have to pay 50c/gallon over market for the gas! I dunno, I have a lot more sympathy for the chap that couldn't have meat until 45! For a windshield??? decades ago, my father had California Casualty. They had a deal with a windshield...

I recall back in college looking for interesting things to stuff in the annoying junk mail return envelopes. I recall a umbrella handle, but don't think we ever found an available brick. As for Sirius, I gave it a try in the trial period, and after r couple of hours, went back to Pandora. My...

Ford was first for the full blown assembly line. Cadillac, though, was several years ahead in interchangeable parts. In an era in which the master mechanics basically sat at tables figuring out which pieces would need the least adjustment work with one another (e.g., piles of cylinders and...

In the late '20s, luxury manufacturers were designing and implementing V-12 engines. Cadillac quietly encouraged the rumors that it was doing the same--so that it could sandbag them with the V-16 that it was actually developing! (a couple of years later, they added a V-12, too) That wasn't...

Kind of like pigs. Making them fly is simply a matter of sufficient thrust . . .

I had an assistant who beat three separate stage 4 cancers, yers apart! (the last one, though, left her unable to work.)

Nah, that's after you cross da boys and get "moldered" 😜

I stopped looking for current requirements two tables above, at "Battery : 12 VDC, Minimum 12 Ah" hmm, you're right, I didn't. My interest pretty much begins and ends with pulling cars up my car hauler. So far, we've successfully powered it with an escalade with a running engine, and with a...

I'm planning on going both the length of Route 66, and CA-1 in all of my convertibles, with the top down for the distance . . .

The winch has instructions. They're apparently a couple of product revisions behind. :rolleyes: Anyway, the manual claims it draws up to 12A.

I'm really not sure whether this should go here in towing, or in maintenance, or . . . . [so I won't be offended if it moves] I connected the factory pigtail to my winch. It took some doing, as HF seems to leave the manual be when it makes changes to the product, but I got there (but with...

or so they start out. After throwing the trailer on the freeway (biggest uhaul, biggest trailer), their field service came out. After examining the hitch on the tongue, he told me that it was set up right, and couldn't possibly have come off unless the ball was too small. The very, very worn...

I bought both of those. If it is, I missed that, but I don't think that's the case. It was the sweet spot in the line, with enough capacity for anything I need to tow. At the moment, at the suggestion of someone from one of my car clubs, it's held on with a rather heavy chain. I got 60mm...

give it a try before you need it! We were at a car gathering, and someone noticed the low tire on my Fleetwood. Someone else had one of those contraptions he'd been waiting for a chance to use, and rushed off to grab it. It melted. I don't mean that it shut off partway through. It melted...

"My name is doc, and I have a Cadillac problem." chorus: "HI, DOC!" oh, who am I kidding. I have an old car problem in general. :rolleyes: I had only two requirements on the new house during our search: my lower back insisted on hot tub jets, and I insisted that I have garage storage for...

In my ideal (and naive!) thought, I'd like the trailer physical brake to come on at the same time as the physical brake on the maverick. So if I can regen to a stop, great, and if I can't, so be it. I'm not hearing it do that when I tap it without the trailer; just the electric whine. (I'm...

I'm about pulling my hair out here in this you-can't-get-there-from-here. I picked up a Harbor Freght/Badland ZXR 5000, a 5,000 pound winch, and their hitch winch frame. I also picked up both of the mount plates they carry--and neither seems to fit--the small one can't line up properly, while...

Hey, when Peter Pan has it in for you, no hook is too big! :crackup: