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

[charlie hill]

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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