[AT] off topic, Internet takeover by govt ?(now GM 5300)

[Ron Cook]

Charlie,
     I had to do that a couple of times a couple of years ago to stop 
the air conditioner from blowing hot air out of the drivers side dash 
vents.  Just me driving it seems to be slowly changing the way it runs.  
Just not satisfactory yet.  But getting closer.
     I did not have any of this trouble with the Farmall super A I 
bought.  I only had to change spark plugs and plow for awhile.  It got 
up to temperature and worked for an hour and it thinks and acts like a 
new 1952 Super A with the rust option.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 2/7/2015 12:25 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> Ron,  you might want to disconnect the battery on it and let it sit a while.
> Hook it back up and drive it the way YOU want it to run.  That should reset
> the computer.  If that's not right I think Steve W. can tell you how to do
> it.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Cook
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 12:59 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] off topic, Internet takeover by govt ?(now GM 5300)
>
> Charlie,
>       The computers do that for sure.  My dad drove like an old woman all
> his life, except he did not slip the clutch to regulate speed. He taught
> my step-mother to drive and she drove just like him.  They would never
> have realized the Suburban was operating poorly.  I have been using it a
> little off and on for the last 3 years and it progressively gets better
> each time I use it.  It probably has over 50 thousand miles going
> nowhere but to the local bars and back home.  Anywhere from 1 block to
> 20 miles one way trips.  Several times a day.  When I turned 16...1959,
> I jumped into dad's 57 Chev Bel Air power pack, duel exhaust, 283 ci
> v-8, that he bought new in the fall of '56.   Floored that puppy and was
> amazed that a Farmall M would probably out perform it.  I rammed around
> a little with it and got the lifters clattering and the thing missing
> and who know what all.  I parked it back in the yard and figured it was
> my last day alive on earth.  The next day, instead of my being hung by
> my heels, my step-mother got in it and moseyed off to her school
> teaching job and that Chevy ran just like a sewing machine. Whew!!!
> When it got traded off in 1962, someone that thought they were getting
> your typical '57,  got a huge surprise, I am sure.
>       Who knows!  Between me, some sensors, and that computer, we may end
> up with a good vehicle and I can feel better about keeping it. I do not
> appreciate those expensive 17 inch tires on it that are going to need
> replacing soon.  Well, a couple anyway.  Front end alignment is probably
> off.  My nephew had the right front all apart and all over the shop
> floor a month or two before the vehicle was given to me.  The right
> front tire is all chopped up.
>
> Ron Cook
> Salix, IA
> On 2/7/2015 11:11 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> Follow up to my other reply.   First off, vehicles vary with each one
>> that rolls out the factory door.  They shouldn't but they do.  That is
>> why we have the term "lemon".  Also, my truck doesn't have the
>> variable displacement which I'm sure affects overall performance.
>> One more thing,  the computers in new vehicles reprogram until they
>> figure out how the driver drives them so, for example, a car driven
>> around town by a little old lady will perform differently than an
>> identical car driven by an 18 year old farm boy.   If the farm boy
>> drives the old ladies car for a while the computer will make the
>> adjustments
>> to his driving style, or at least that's how it's supposed to work.
>> The old saying regarding new vehicles from back in my younger years seems
>> to
>> apply even more
>> now than back then "break them in like you want them to run".
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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