[AT] The terror strikes again. - Studebaker speed response

[Cecil R Bearden]

I have a 2000 chevy 1 ton that dad & I bought new.  It had the first ABS 
brakes for us...  It would literally push your foot off the pedal and 
slide thru an intersection if it was wet.   Dealer could not help.  I 
disconnected it by pulling the fuse.  It has been that way since it was 
6 months old.   My 95 chevy suburbvan had ABS  I changed the brake pads 
and the ABS quit working.  I spent over $1000 trying to get he ABS 
working again with 2 new abs units.  I finally gave up.  I did not like 
the ABS anyway.  This surburban was also the one that had 3 air 
conditioning compressors in its lifetime and every time it required a 
new evaporator in the dash because the evaporator fitting would freeze 
onto the receiver and there was barely enough length of tubing to get a 
wrench on the fitting where it came out of the firewall.   This was the 
reason I started buying Fords or Chryslers.   I cannot afford a new 
vehicle, but I can buy a used one that can be worked on.  As far as I am 
concerned, GM has had their head up their butts for since 1985.

Just my $0.12

Cecil in OKla


On 6/4/2014 7:13 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> (replying to Charlie's note with a lot of snipping...)
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:27 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> john I put some weight in the rear of my 4 WD truck if possible but
>> usually not more than 200 or 300 lbs.
>
> I usually don't add weight, and the reason why not is because my truck is
> not a daily driver; it comes out when I need to haul something meaning I
> generally need the bed to be free of dead-weight obstructions; and
> otherwise it comes out when the snow is really bad.
>
>
>
>>   I know those who don't have 4 WD or
>> don't want 4 WD or just don't believe in it for one reason or another don't
>> want
>> to hear this but there really is a dramatic difference when driving in snow
>> or
>> anything else slick or deep.
>
>
> This is really the part I wanted to focus us.  YES!  It's just a fact.  The
> 2WD supporters have found that it works for them, but clearly they aren't
> taking their trucks into some of the same situations as Charlie and I have
> described.
>
> SO
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