Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 18:44:36 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: That's it, I've had it. (Driving with brake on)
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in power boats..
the trailerable kind ...there's a drain or two at the bottom of the transom
..
for draining the boat when pulling it out of the water.
that plug or plugs ..are always tied to the steering wheel so you can't
forget to put them in before launching.
it's a well known reminder trick.
you 'misplace an object intentionally' ..
anything will work..
you put a book in front of the front door to remind you of something ..you
see that object there, and you go 'why did I put that there ? - oh right !
"
works really well too.
just need a bigger brighter warning light for the parking brake.
I suspect that many of those warning lights may not work for low brake fluid
level.
I should test more vans that have feature,. to see if it works for low
fluid level if it has that feature.
I found a bad brake warning light recently too.....already mentioned that .
not all vanagons have the low fluid level warning feature.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: That's it, I've had it. (Driving with brake on)
>> ps -- on my brother's land yacht, he has a clothes pin. When he
>> cranks the TV antenna up, he puts the clothes pin on the steering
>> wheel. So the pin lives either on the wheel or on the antenna erecting
>> handle.
>>
>
> Now that's cool! I love things like that.....simple, no moving parts,
> no
> wires, no way for the warning device to malfunction and make it necessary
> to
> find out what the heck is wrong with the warning device, too.
>
> I did similar with my racecar...whenever I did anything at all that made
> the car "Not track ready"...first thing I did was tie a piece of survey
> tape
> onto the steering wheel...when everything was 'checked off' my pre race
> list, I would take off the tape...but never ever until I'd gone over that
> pre race checklist.... Then, if I had to go away to a drivers meeting or
> my
> pit neighbor needed me to help something...I would not 'forget' I'd been
> interupted before torquing on the wheels or putting gas in or something
> dumb
> like that...
> Don Hanson
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