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On Dec 27, 7:06*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
had my brand new F-150 Lariat Special Edition towed back from
Greenville RI to the dealer in Webster, MA because...

The brakes failed - as in F A I L E D - causing me to avoid a massive
collision by jumping a curb and heading into the pucker brush.

Then, to add insult to injury, when I restarted the engine after it
stalled out, a horrendous noise and oil smoke started to pour out from
under the hood. *Brand new engine to boot.

In a nut shell, this truck is a piece of s##t. *This is the sixth
major failure in 20 thousand miles.

No, I'm not buying a Toyota so don't even suggest it.

I am looking at GMC though.

Dude, I have gotten pretty good with our new Tom Tom.. You are aware
that it lags a little right. I mean, when it says "turn right now" you
are not really to the turn yet. You knew that, right?

Glad everyones all right. Talk to you later...

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:06:26 -0500, HK wrote:


You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?

No, but when you are not around town. But then again, a good road atlas
has done me well for years.

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On Dec 28, 9:06*am, HK wrote:
wrote:
On Dec 27, 7:06 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
had my brand new F-150 Lariat Special Edition towed back from
Greenville RI to the dealer in Webster, MA because...

The brakes failed - as in F A I L E D - causing me to avoid a massive
collision by jumping a curb and heading into the pucker brush.

Then, to add insult to injury, when I restarted the engine after it
stalled out, a horrendous noise and oil smoke started to pour out from
under the hood. *Brand new engine to boot.

In a nut shell, this truck is a piece of s##t. *This is the sixth
major failure in 20 thousand miles.

No, I'm not buying a Toyota so don't even suggest it.

I am looking at GMC though.

Dude, I have gotten pretty good with our new Tom Tom.. You are aware
that it lags a little right. I mean, when it says "turn right now" you
are not really to the turn yet. You knew that, right?

Glad everyones all right. Talk to you later...

You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

My wife drives a lot at night and is newer to the area... I don't
think the money was wasted.

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On Dec 28, 9:20*am, wrote:
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:06:26 -0500, HK wrote:
You guys really need these devices to find your way around town?

No, but when you are not around town. But then again, a good road atlas
has done me well for years.

Me too till I got old. Now to read an atlas I have to pull over, turn
on extra lights as the interiors in both cars suck, and change to my
other higher powered reading glasses. If I can't remember all the
turns, I have to do it again, and again, and again....

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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Dec 27, 8:58 pm, BAR wrote:
Eisboch wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
When I talked to the Service Manager, he mentioned something about
losing vacuum pressure. I said what? I'm trying to figure that one
out - brakes shouldn't be controlled by vacuum pressure - I always
thought they ran off the power steering assist pump.
It's not "vacuum pressure", but doesn't the power brake system
operate off
of engine vacuum? I haven't checked new vehicles but I think the
older ones
did.
The newer ones do run off of vacuum pressure.

Off a vacuum pump.

No pump, vacuum from the intake manifold is the source.


Doesn't the transmission also use vacuum pressure in some manner?


On some Ford transmissions it does. I had a C4 transmission that had the
modulator valve's diaphragm rupture and start sucking transmission fluid
into the intake manifold which produced a dense cloud of white smoke
behind me as I drove down the Interstate. Seven dollar part, back in the
day, and it could have ruined my transmission if I had kept driving.

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:59:37 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

On Dec 27, 7:06*pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
had my brand new F-150 Lariat Special Edition towed back from
Greenville RI to the dealer in Webster, MA because...

The brakes failed - as in F A I L E D - causing me to avoid a massive
collision by jumping a curb and heading into the pucker brush.

Then, to add insult to injury, when I restarted the engine after it
stalled out, a horrendous noise and oil smoke started to pour out from
under the hood. *Brand new engine to boot.

In a nut shell, this truck is a piece of s##t. *This is the sixth
major failure in 20 thousand miles.

No, I'm not buying a Toyota so don't even suggest it.

I am looking at GMC though.

Dude, I have gotten pretty good with our new Tom Tom.. You are aware
that it lags a little right. I mean, when it says "turn right now" you
are not really to the turn yet. You knew that, right?

Glad everyones all right. Talk to you later...

You reckon his jumping a curb and crashing into the pucker bush was 'cause
he paid too close attention to the Tom Tom?

Sounds like lawsuit time to me!

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"Eisboch" wrote in message
...

"Tim" wrote in message
...
On Dec 27, 11:56 pm, BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:

Off a vacuum pump.

No pump, vacuum from the intake manifold is the source.

When did ford start pulling a vac, from the intake manifold? AFAIK,
they've always used a pump

Maybe you are thinking of the "air" pump that was installed in all cars to
inject clean air into the exhaust to "improve" emission readings.

Engine vacuum has been used for years for power brakes and on older car's
features like flip-up headlights and even the windshield wipers (on really
old cars).

Eisboch

Didn't you just love it when you stepped on the accelerator and wipers
slowed or stopped?

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D.Duck wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
...
"Tim" wrote in message
...
On Dec 27, 11:56 pm, BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:
Off a vacuum pump.
No pump, vacuum from the intake manifold is the source.
When did ford start pulling a vac, from the intake manifold? AFAIK,
they've always used a pump

Maybe you are thinking of the "air" pump that was installed in all cars to
inject clean air into the exhaust to "improve" emission readings.

Engine vacuum has been used for years for power brakes and on older car's
features like flip-up headlights and even the windshield wipers (on really
old cars).

Eisboch

Didn't you just love it when you stepped on the accelerator and wipers
slowed or stopped?




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