musing about fuel savings
09-25-2005, 07:05 PM
#61
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Re: musing about fuel savings
Bret Ludwig did pass the time by typing:
> Clap Trap wrote:
>> Real Jeeps have generators and amp gages, not alternators and dumba**
>> voltmeters.
>>
>> L.W.(ßill) ------ III wrote:
>>> Real Jeep don't give a sh*t about gas mileage and have huge
>>> alternators and fans pulling at least ten horsepower.
>>> Billy Ray wrote:
>>>
>>>> Real Jeeps don't have alternators, radio
>>>> amplifiers, or off road lights
>
> Yes but real off road vehicles don't have.....spark plugs.
Correct.
http://www.imh.org/imh/bw/mule.html
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DougW
> Clap Trap wrote:
>> Real Jeeps have generators and amp gages, not alternators and dumba**
>> voltmeters.
>>
>> L.W.(ßill) ------ III wrote:
>>> Real Jeep don't give a sh*t about gas mileage and have huge
>>> alternators and fans pulling at least ten horsepower.
>>> Billy Ray wrote:
>>>
>>>> Real Jeeps don't have alternators, radio
>>>> amplifiers, or off road lights
>
> Yes but real off road vehicles don't have.....spark plugs.
Correct.
http://www.imh.org/imh/bw/mule.html
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DougW
09-25-2005, 07:07 PM
#62
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Off Topic Re: musing about fuel savings
Hi Bill,
LOL, that reminds me, that into to at least the mid seventies every
phone, gas & electric, and Patrol car had their drivers portable radio
hooked up to an auxiliary battery laying on their dash.
There's nothing better than listening to an old AM tube and
vibrator radio to roch"n"roll.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Billy Ray wrote:
>
> Yes, Of course back in the day vehicles did not need much power other than
> for the ignition and the sad headlights we had back then.
>
> I had a couple cars without radios other than a transistor propped against
> the windshield. My first car radio was an Delco AM model with tubes and a
> built in speaker scavenged from a junkyard for a couple dollars.
>
> The kids nowadays don't know about that stuff though..
>
> --
> .
> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
LOL, that reminds me, that into to at least the mid seventies every
phone, gas & electric, and Patrol car had their drivers portable radio
hooked up to an auxiliary battery laying on their dash.
There's nothing better than listening to an old AM tube and
vibrator radio to roch"n"roll.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Billy Ray wrote:
>
> Yes, Of course back in the day vehicles did not need much power other than
> for the ignition and the sad headlights we had back then.
>
> I had a couple cars without radios other than a transistor propped against
> the windshield. My first car radio was an Delco AM model with tubes and a
> built in speaker scavenged from a junkyard for a couple dollars.
>
> The kids nowadays don't know about that stuff though..
>
> --
> .
> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
09-25-2005, 07:07 PM
#63
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Off Topic Re: musing about fuel savings
Hi Bill,
LOL, that reminds me, that into to at least the mid seventies every
phone, gas & electric, and Patrol car had their drivers portable radio
hooked up to an auxiliary battery laying on their dash.
There's nothing better than listening to an old AM tube and
vibrator radio to roch"n"roll.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Billy Ray wrote:
>
> Yes, Of course back in the day vehicles did not need much power other than
> for the ignition and the sad headlights we had back then.
>
> I had a couple cars without radios other than a transistor propped against
> the windshield. My first car radio was an Delco AM model with tubes and a
> built in speaker scavenged from a junkyard for a couple dollars.
>
> The kids nowadays don't know about that stuff though..
>
> --
> .
> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
LOL, that reminds me, that into to at least the mid seventies every
phone, gas & electric, and Patrol car had their drivers portable radio
hooked up to an auxiliary battery laying on their dash.
There's nothing better than listening to an old AM tube and
vibrator radio to roch"n"roll.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Billy Ray wrote:
>
> Yes, Of course back in the day vehicles did not need much power other than
> for the ignition and the sad headlights we had back then.
>
> I had a couple cars without radios other than a transistor propped against
> the windshield. My first car radio was an Delco AM model with tubes and a
> built in speaker scavenged from a junkyard for a couple dollars.
>
> The kids nowadays don't know about that stuff though..
>
> --
> .
> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
09-25-2005, 07:07 PM
#64
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Off Topic Re: musing about fuel savings
Hi Bill,
LOL, that reminds me, that into to at least the mid seventies every
phone, gas & electric, and Patrol car had their drivers portable radio
hooked up to an auxiliary battery laying on their dash.
There's nothing better than listening to an old AM tube and
vibrator radio to roch"n"roll.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Billy Ray wrote:
>
> Yes, Of course back in the day vehicles did not need much power other than
> for the ignition and the sad headlights we had back then.
>
> I had a couple cars without radios other than a transistor propped against
> the windshield. My first car radio was an Delco AM model with tubes and a
> built in speaker scavenged from a junkyard for a couple dollars.
>
> The kids nowadays don't know about that stuff though..
>
> --
> .
> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
LOL, that reminds me, that into to at least the mid seventies every
phone, gas & electric, and Patrol car had their drivers portable radio
hooked up to an auxiliary battery laying on their dash.
There's nothing better than listening to an old AM tube and
vibrator radio to roch"n"roll.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Billy Ray wrote:
>
> Yes, Of course back in the day vehicles did not need much power other than
> for the ignition and the sad headlights we had back then.
>
> I had a couple cars without radios other than a transistor propped against
> the windshield. My first car radio was an Delco AM model with tubes and a
> built in speaker scavenged from a junkyard for a couple dollars.
>
> The kids nowadays don't know about that stuff though..
>
> --
> .
> Billy_Ray@SPAM.fuse.net (remove SPAM)
> 2002 Jeep WJ 4 Liter Automatic
> Sharing is why we are all here....... or should be.
09-25-2005, 07:08 PM
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Re: musing about fuel savings
Mike Romain did pass the time by typing:
> Well ya know, if that would work in the slightest degree, one of the
> makers would have tried it eh.......
Possibly. There are always things they tried but other cost items
kept it from being implemented. Like the subject sez, "musing" :]
> Figure what the engine runs like with one plug wire off and just figure
> on that power hit once every 7 shots. Shutting one cylinder down on a
> conventional engine just doesn't work and Caddy proved shutting down
> cylinders works for ----.
True
> I hear the new crippled Hemi, that has no right to that name has a
> serious power lag while the computer thinks about what cylinder to fire
> when it is new and it is 'fly by wire' with no cables, imagine when it
> ages....
It does. I don't like die-by-wire systems.
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DougW
> Well ya know, if that would work in the slightest degree, one of the
> makers would have tried it eh.......
Possibly. There are always things they tried but other cost items
kept it from being implemented. Like the subject sez, "musing" :]
> Figure what the engine runs like with one plug wire off and just figure
> on that power hit once every 7 shots. Shutting one cylinder down on a
> conventional engine just doesn't work and Caddy proved shutting down
> cylinders works for ----.
True
> I hear the new crippled Hemi, that has no right to that name has a
> serious power lag while the computer thinks about what cylinder to fire
> when it is new and it is 'fly by wire' with no cables, imagine when it
> ages....
It does. I don't like die-by-wire systems.
--
DougW
09-25-2005, 07:08 PM
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Re: musing about fuel savings
Mike Romain did pass the time by typing:
> Well ya know, if that would work in the slightest degree, one of the
> makers would have tried it eh.......
Possibly. There are always things they tried but other cost items
kept it from being implemented. Like the subject sez, "musing" :]
> Figure what the engine runs like with one plug wire off and just figure
> on that power hit once every 7 shots. Shutting one cylinder down on a
> conventional engine just doesn't work and Caddy proved shutting down
> cylinders works for ----.
True
> I hear the new crippled Hemi, that has no right to that name has a
> serious power lag while the computer thinks about what cylinder to fire
> when it is new and it is 'fly by wire' with no cables, imagine when it
> ages....
It does. I don't like die-by-wire systems.
--
DougW
> Well ya know, if that would work in the slightest degree, one of the
> makers would have tried it eh.......
Possibly. There are always things they tried but other cost items
kept it from being implemented. Like the subject sez, "musing" :]
> Figure what the engine runs like with one plug wire off and just figure
> on that power hit once every 7 shots. Shutting one cylinder down on a
> conventional engine just doesn't work and Caddy proved shutting down
> cylinders works for ----.
True
> I hear the new crippled Hemi, that has no right to that name has a
> serious power lag while the computer thinks about what cylinder to fire
> when it is new and it is 'fly by wire' with no cables, imagine when it
> ages....
It does. I don't like die-by-wire systems.
--
DougW
09-25-2005, 07:08 PM
#67
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Re: musing about fuel savings
Mike Romain did pass the time by typing:
> Well ya know, if that would work in the slightest degree, one of the
> makers would have tried it eh.......
Possibly. There are always things they tried but other cost items
kept it from being implemented. Like the subject sez, "musing" :]
> Figure what the engine runs like with one plug wire off and just figure
> on that power hit once every 7 shots. Shutting one cylinder down on a
> conventional engine just doesn't work and Caddy proved shutting down
> cylinders works for ----.
True
> I hear the new crippled Hemi, that has no right to that name has a
> serious power lag while the computer thinks about what cylinder to fire
> when it is new and it is 'fly by wire' with no cables, imagine when it
> ages....
It does. I don't like die-by-wire systems.
--
DougW
> Well ya know, if that would work in the slightest degree, one of the
> makers would have tried it eh.......
Possibly. There are always things they tried but other cost items
kept it from being implemented. Like the subject sez, "musing" :]
> Figure what the engine runs like with one plug wire off and just figure
> on that power hit once every 7 shots. Shutting one cylinder down on a
> conventional engine just doesn't work and Caddy proved shutting down
> cylinders works for ----.
True
> I hear the new crippled Hemi, that has no right to that name has a
> serious power lag while the computer thinks about what cylinder to fire
> when it is new and it is 'fly by wire' with no cables, imagine when it
> ages....
It does. I don't like die-by-wire systems.
--
DougW
09-25-2005, 07:09 PM
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Re: musing about fuel savings
Where do you find a generator core?
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Bret Ludwig wrote:
> MANY shops rewind Generators, look in Hemmings.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
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Bret Ludwig wrote:
> MANY shops rewind Generators, look in Hemmings.
09-25-2005, 07:09 PM
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Re: musing about fuel savings
Where do you find a generator core?
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
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Bret Ludwig wrote:
> MANY shops rewind Generators, look in Hemmings.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Bret Ludwig wrote:
> MANY shops rewind Generators, look in Hemmings.
09-25-2005, 07:09 PM
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Re: musing about fuel savings
Where do you find a generator core?
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Bret Ludwig wrote:
> MANY shops rewind Generators, look in Hemmings.
God Bless America, Bill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
Bret Ludwig wrote:
> MANY shops rewind Generators, look in Hemmings.