saddamsnightmare

January 8th, 2010.

All this discussion is making me appreciate the simplicity of the unconverted M35A2 series truck and S404.114 Unimog that I own. The only worries I have is that neither truck's hydraulics are split, so that is the weak point in either system, having said that I have never seen an ABS system that I trusted enough to let it do the thinking for me. As I have always driven manual transmission light and medium trucks which did not have ABS applied, I always felt I had contriol of the vehicle and common sense and experience makes up for the lack of ABS.
The loss of steering power with the engine stall out would be far more bothersome, given the size of the truck, then any other factor, and it is caused by the torque converter lock up mechanism. It seems that they are trying to get manual transmission efficiency in an automatic transmission set up..... Why not just stick with the manual transmission....Oh, sorry, the average brain dead American can no longer drive a standard???!!!!

This is gonna get like the Russian Army driving schools where some poor slob of an officer has to teach the peasants how to drive Uncle Mikhail's toys......

I can see the validity of the discussion and we all stand to gain from it, but I, for one, am going to continue to stay away from anything that has an automatic in it if it is at all possible...... The modern engineers can't design a solid reliable standard, witness all the trouble Chrysler has had with the drive trains on its Jeeps the last 9 years.....

Stay Safe and use your heads for more then hat racks, they work better when exercised......

Cheers,
Kyle F. McGrogan