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I only had stripes on my sleeves in the military. In the
Officer's Handbook enlisted men were desribed as "lazy and stupid, but clever
and therefor bear considerable watching". Sums me up.
Sometimes I just try to pull something out of this old head and sometimes it
works and sometimes it doesn't. If it doens't, there will be someone here
to rectify the situation.
I thought the originals dual master cyliners were one wheel on one side of
the car and one wheel on the other side of the car. That was years ago and
I never paid any attention anymore to it. It might have been the way I
thought it was decades ago and they came up with the other way which works
better (looking for some weasle room here). I just go with whatever was on
the old car and the one I have now is a single master cylinder and is staying
that way. No power steering either. You have to be careful and it
helps a lot if you drove cars like this in the old days. I did so I knew
what to expect. Good, easy to work brakes (drum with no power assist) and
long, slow, hard steering. The trick to getting the car to steer more
easily is to have the car moving, even if just barely when you are turning the
wheel and the wheel turns about 10 times easier.
But if the motor conks out or you have to turn the key off because the
throttle stuck, (it happened to me) I already knew what to do. With a car
this powerful you better have a plan already formulater. I turned off the
key because the engine so overpowered the motor that with stuck throttle and the
brakes locked the engine still had the car going at least 25 mph and a stop sign
and another car's rear end were looming in front of me. I tuned off the
key, put the brake on with my foot and easily turned the car off the road, fixed
the stuck throttle linkage and was quickly on my way. It keeps you on your
toes.
Thanks for the correction,
Chick.
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