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- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!eap
- From: eap@leland.Stanford.EDU (Eric Perozziello)
- Subject: Re: Increasing power?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.185311.2188@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <Bs43q3.7Bn@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> <1992Jul29.094119.20703@mr.med.ge.com> <1992Jul29.133057.1381@mlb.semi.harris.com>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 18:53:11 GMT
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- > Automatics excel at some things. The torque converter beats a clutch hands
- >down for things like towing, pulling a boat up the ramp, or launching off
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- OR plowing snow, if you come from an area that gets it!!!!!!
- Clutches can be gone in one snow season on a truck.
- The changing of directions acccompanied by hard pushing, slippage, etc
- heat up the disc and kill it fast! Auto's are the only way to go IMHO
- for snow plowing!
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