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Reply #15 on: December 01, 2020, 08:19:16 pm
In INGSOC everything is illegal, your self appointed local "overlord" will find the appropriate punishment for you. You may find a flat tire on your car or something. Thank goodness I don't have to see that commie f@#ck off place again.  ::)


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Reply #16 on: February 23, 2021, 07:26:48 pm
Well l suppose you might think the maintenance is easy until you want to replace a brake pipe and find the main dealer is the only one with the softwhere to reprogram the abs, seems they are all heading that way now.


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Reply #17 on: February 23, 2021, 11:47:27 pm
I have to say, I'm confused.
What happens if the ABS isn't connected or recalibrated? Does the brake not work or is the front wheel seized?
No wonder we no longer have a motor industry


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Reply #18 on: February 24, 2021, 02:35:35 pm
I have to say, I'm confused.
What happens if the ABS isn't connected or recalibrated? Does the brake not work or is the front wheel seized?
If the ABS fails your brakes function normally, you just lose the ABS and the check ABS light comes on. On some ABS equipped vehicles you need a scan tool or lap top to engage the ABS "bleed mode" any time the brake system is opened up. Using the bleed mode opens the system so the ABS doesn't see an open bleeder has a broken line and shut off flow to that wheel. It's actually a bit more complex than that, dependent on the system in use, but that's the gist of it.

Not all vehicles are so equipped, I just replaced all the brake lines on my 2011 Jeep equipped with ABS and traction/stability control, (ESC) and was able to bleed the brakes just fine using the pump the pedal and open the bleeder method just like it was a 55 Chevy. 


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Reply #19 on: February 25, 2021, 11:43:37 pm
If the ABS fails your brakes function normally, you just lose the ABS and the check ABS light comes on.
I'd be chucking that in the bin.
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Reply #20 on: February 26, 2021, 01:20:42 pm
I'd be chucking that in the bin.

If the ABS ever fails on my Interceptor, and requires repairs of more than few bucks, that's exactly where it's going.


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Reply #21 on: March 07, 2021, 01:37:10 pm
Well now they no longer do domestic science at school think of the multi billion pound take away businesses that have sprung up because no one can cook anymore eating junk has become easy peasy.


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Reply #22 on: March 09, 2021, 02:07:52 am
I dunno about the takeaway business booming, but after folks have been cooking for themselves for a year, the surviving restaurants are really going to have to up their game when lockdown ends. I've seen the shopping cart inventories change over the course of Pandemic - lots more spices, vegetables, other exotica and less "Mac 'n Cheez". People are learning from those cooking shows...!
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Reply #23 on: March 26, 2021, 05:48:43 pm
Well the Chinese takeaways have never had it so good there's a three hour wait for delivery.


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Reply #24 on: March 26, 2021, 06:28:37 pm
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Reply #25 on: March 26, 2021, 09:26:54 pm
Speaking of the Chinese, I wonder how much of the government's "Stimulus" money is going to eventually end up in their hands.   ::)
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Reply #26 on: May 16, 2021, 07:11:43 am
Speaking of the Chinese, I wonder how much of the government's "Stimulus" money is going to eventually end up in their hands.   ::)

Pretty much all of it, especially from those that shop at Walmart.  :(
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Reply #27 on: May 16, 2021, 12:24:12 pm
Speaking of the Chinese, I wonder how much of the government's "Stimulus" money is going to eventually end up in their hands.   ::)

            A VERY large % of it (that doesn't go to union and political payoffs) will end up in China's bank account. But that's nothing unusual or "shocking". We've been financing China's multitudinous giant operations and takeovers around the world for decades and we're right back to it now. China knows Eggzacktlee what it's doing and we pay them 100s of billions of dollars a year to do it. Including the couple of dozen coal-fired power plants they build every year. And it will only get worse now. Again.

             I remember this in detail, and every day since then, (I'm an incurable current events, politics, news, foreign and domestic, and history junkie) way back to the days when the Chinese were bootlegging movies and selling them to us and around the world before the movies were even in the Theaters! Our universities (especially research universities) and many other agencies are also well-stocked with Chinese staff (and "students") sending all kinds of info of all kinds back to the "mother country" every day. 

             China looks at things differently than we do. Here only the next election and who do I blow or pay off to get me elected or reelected and get a committee appointment is important.
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Reply #28 on: May 16, 2021, 07:02:15 pm
Apparently we need to move this topic to "Campfire Talk"...the technical portion has faded out completely.
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Reply #29 on: August 19, 2021, 03:33:18 pm
I'm going to revive the original premise of this thread by asking if anyone has the specs for valve adjustment on the Meteor?

RE requires the tappets be checked at 500km and I am approaching that and I am looking at being forced to have the dealer do it, since there are no specs available anywhere from RE, that I have managed to find yet.

Other than the usual bottom line wallet emptiers that the dealer does to pad the bill on a "500 km maintenance service" (inspect this and that and check the tire pressures), the tappet adjustment is the only real need to do item and then not again for 10,000 km, according to the piss poor owner's manual, which doesn't even show a neophyte how to change the bloody oil!
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1966 Honda 65 Sport
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