a lot of 70s american cars have super over kill power steering. i mean parallel parking with your pinky.
I don't understand how you'd go about doing daily tasks if you're so weak you can't even drive a car without power steering. The mustang's power steering is pretty overpowered. You could probably steer it with your tongue if you wanted to do so. It's great.
I can only imagine the frail elderly and maybe those worth disorders such as muscular dystrophy being incapable. I am incredibly weak as people go, no muscle at all, I can drive without power steering.
got no choice driving under tow, the power steering worked -when the car started that is, which it wasn't
Oh that's adventurous. I found that if I ran my tires at 5psi over the recommended pressure it helped a little. Again that was in a 2300 pound car with a manual rack.
that car depending on exact model and trim, somewhere in the 2028-2327lb range. But it had battery problems, couldnt start under its own power, jump started to get it going, it died in traffic, couldnt get it jump started as we couldnt get another car round the front in a busy town centre and turns out attaching 3 sets of jump leads end to end to a car with a measly 1.2l engine does not work XD Towed it out instead (whoever said a 1.2l couldnt tow?). I will hold my hands up and say I am weak, I was leaning out of the chair brute forcing that wheel around. Fucking hydraulics. I've also driven a pure electronic power steering system under tow, those are not too bad, not much worse than a manual rack. We then proceeded to try bump starting it in moving traffic from the tow rope, oh thats sketchy as fuck, bloody well works though. Dont recommend it in the slightest though. The careful balance of slamming the car into 2nd, giving it some gas to make sure theres going to plenty of fuel going through and the engine doesnt just die out again, then lifting the clutch, oh god the engines caught, oh god I am now accelerating towards him, slam clutch and into neutral (we'd agreed even once the engine had caught it would probably be safest to carry on being towed under the other cars power until we could get somewhere to detach the rope), oh god theres now a red light that mates slowing down for, slam the brake too XD Other fun part. No brake power assist under tow, thats fun. Manageable fun but fun.
my mate bought me these from japan when he was buying some stuff for his own car. the actual dealer brochure for my car (as it was sold new in Japan, and driven in Japan before it was exported to NZ) even has a dealer order form thing with option boxes which look like you tick them.
Here's my 2005 Fiat Panda. 1.2L 8 valve i4, 55bhp. It's a beater. Repaired with junkyard parts. Including engine block and gearbox. The chassis is bended. ABS and ESP don't work. Idles at 1.5k rpm. Accelerates by itself. Doesn't brake at all. Passenger side's front door doesn't unlock sometimes, and the list goes on...
It was better before my brother took it for a joyride in downtown. I am honestly terrified while driving that car. You don't know what the steering is up to until you crash into an oncoming lorry at 80kph.
My Volvo 850 T5 with a manual swap. Bigger turbo, upgraded exhaust manifold, bigger injectors, a tune, Forge BOV and silicone intercooler pipes. And I own a 2014 Civic as a daily driver
1965 International Cub. Hardly uses any fuel, More like makes it. 1 Liter 4 cylinder 12-18 horses. NA. 1,500 OR 1,800 rpm limit 40 Lb torque. I simulated it in Automation, Turn the fuel up and rpm up I can get 20 HP 60 Lb. 1971 International 1066. Sips fuel, Rolls coal, 13,500 POUNDS in weight. DT-466 Inside. Everything you own, Has probably been moved by one. (7.6L Turbo) Fuel turned up to about 125 HP at Flywheel. (Guessing) 1800 Lb torque. 18 gears. Torque Amplifier. 3x torque, so I will be getting 5,400 FT LB AFTER Torque Amplifier, Then gearing. So too much at the wheels haha! 4,200 OG Hours. Videos on both of them toys: 34486 SCI.
Although nearly all our equipment at work is green, I've got a soft spot for those IH's, I assume yours has been repowered? I don't remember the 1066's having a DT466 in them, I thought they had the oddball DT414's.
