Now this is what I call ground and pound:
And some random shots for no reason whatsoever:
And some random shots for no reason whatsoever:
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What is an "emergency brake"? Is it a US thing? We only have normal foot pedal brake and a handbrake.
Especially as I was so over the target age group.The end had me losing my headphones...
Yeah, makes you feel old...
The "emergency brake" is what we call "handbrake". I still wonder why they call it e-brake in the US...
Handbrake IIRC, the one you pull on when the brake pedal goes right to the floor with no resistance.
A large proportion of American cars are automatics with a park setting on the selector the old PRND indicator. It can get confusing when you have several different controls saying they do the same thing or at least I found it so a few years ago when I rented a flash Mercedes with it felt like half a dozen ways to put the brakes on when stoped and different ones for when parked.
It was called an emergency brake or parking brake because in most cars there is no handle. It was a small, stubby pedal to the extreme left of the drivers side floor board. You stomped it to activate it and you pulled a release lever above it just under the dash to release it.
Most people never used it unless their main hydraulic brakes failed, hence the name "emergency brake".
They didn't start making "hand brake" parking brakes until the late 80's for most cars after a bunch of imports had them, so mostly only people "of a certain age" still call it emergency brakes.
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If I had looked in a car and saw that my first thought would be that it was the starter, though that usually looked like a floor mounted button so quite different from the other three pedals usually found in UK cars.
Haven't had that happen since 1988...
And usually sign of a neglected car.
Gratuitous sunrise shot as I start my post work exploration:
The Dolphin is a weird one for me. I feel as if I should love it. I love the look of it and I adore it's bigger sibling the Orca - the looks the sounds it makes.
But the Dolphin is not as agile as I expect a small ship to be, doesn't have a particularly good cockpit view (which looks like a 1930s tram inside) and I don't care for the squeaky noises it makes on thrusters. To my ear, it's just silly and immersion breaking. Why does a spaceship sound like a squeaky toy? I also can't get excited about the whole charge FSD while fuel scooping thing.
Never mind, each to their own. I am happy that others enjoy it.
But the Dolphin is not as agile as I expect a small ship to be, doesn't have a particularly good cockpit view (which looks like a 1930s tram inside) and I don't care for the squeaky noises it makes on thrusters. To my ear, it's just silly and immersion breaking. Why does a spaceship sound like a squeaky toy? I also can't get excited about the whole charge FSD while fuel scooping thing.
Never mind, each to their own. I am happy that others enjoy it.
I remember those. Most of my early cars had them. Haven't missed them, though
Not familiar with Flipper, I take it?
All my Ford pickup trucks still have the foot pedal up against the kick plate, they are a mechanical actuator for brakes. I have huge four wheel disc brakes on my F-350's and on the rear there are tiny little shoe brakes inside a hub in the center of the rotors that act as E-brakes or parking brakes. All 18 wheelers have drum brakes except for the steer axles, those are disc with a screw cam, drums use S-cams, thus the phrase cammed over.
They are starting to switch over to screw cam disc brakes on class 1 trucks, I always swapped out my auto adjusters for manual adjusters because I was driving a log truck and we would drive up to 120 miles a day in the dirt. Auto adjusters don't work well in mud or icy conditions, I have replaced many, many liners myself which are rebuildable.
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Is that name taken? Finally something better than “Dolphin” …the reg plate will be 2QT2DI :]
Our Volvos have the same thing. It's actually electric. You push a button and the brake engages.
When I do the brakes, you have to be VERY careful when you remove the E-brake housing because it's all plastic. You break one and it's around 200 dollars to replace it. The entire brake job, all new rotors and pads, cost right at 200 dollars.
I know Flipper, and I've encountered real Dolphins in the Bahamas and Discovery Cove in Orlando. That sound doesn't work as a spaceship thruster noise for me. But the Orca is just
What is it that Imperials don't have any medium sized ships, I wonder...
Is that per axle or all four, if it's all the brakes, that's not too bad. I take it you use after market parts with those prices, OEM Volvo parts are expensive, right?
That's all of it.
In contrast to that, I'm about to finally have to do my old Vmax (motorcycle) brakes. Each front rotor is $300.00. The rear rotor is $280.00. I'm in $1000.00 just in the three rotors alone before I even think about pads, new lines and rebuilding the master cylinder, rear cylinder, calipers and clutch slave.