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From : chaos

Q: the gasket comes separately. crappy deal. can you gasket seal it in if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving hello. quick question on a 1989 dodge ram 1/2 ton with a 318 is there a rubber gasket that goes around the thermostat i had one picked up for me and it doesnt come with one. i would like to find out before i rip the truck apart. thanks in advance. .

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From : chaos

tbone wrote bullshit. when a fwd slips a light touch of the gass usually gets it right back. when a rwd loses traction in the front your sol and better pray that nothing else is around. when they lose traction in the rear at best nothing happens but usually the front and rear of the car exchange positions and again you better pray that nothing else is around. then there is the fun of deep snow where the front wheels plow in and get a rwd hopelessly stuck. while a rwd car can be made better in the snow with the help of studded tires and more weight in the rear a fwd is still better and doesnt require modification or pre-planning. i have owned nothing but rwd cars all of my life but when my furnace failed at the end of a blizzard and i needed to get parts for it my wifes little fwd honda civic got me there where my rwd trans-am couldnt even get out of my drive way and i knew better than to even try. think im going to have to add my voice to the chorus of agreement with you on this. actually the best rwd snow car i ever owned was a vw beetle. the larger sized wheels rear engine with fairly low cg over drive wheels and rear engine weight adding to rw traction when climbing moderate vehicle height and a mostly sealed underside made for a much more competent off road/snow vehicle than one would have thought. there is the argument about fwd torque induced sliding but i really think its minimal compared with what you gain. weight over the drive wheels that a rwd simply cant match. im assuming tire type and tread is constant in any comparison; tires will have profound effect on traction probably above and beyond fwd/rwd config. people like rwd for dry road traction during acceleration but im not talking about that context. fwd is better for snow traction in my experience and in most everything ive read. smh .

From : bob

if driving a fwd car youd think you can use the parking brake to straighten out of a slide but all the ones ive seen have the parking brake on the front wheels - making that useless. bryan really which ones my wifes old honda and her current intrepid both have the parking brake in the rear. ok i havent looked at all that many fwd cars brake systems though of the ones ive seen had the parking brakes on the front axle. b like i asked before which ones i dont recall -- didnt think id be asked for that information later. b .

From : michael greenwood

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From : chaos

tbone fatchance@noway.now wrote in tbone fatchance@noway.now wrote in dude based on what youve said you dont have a clue what youre talking about and/or you dont have a clue how to drive in snow. lol and how long have you been driving two or three years chances are a lot more than you. with your severe lack of knowledge in fwd handling and operations i doubt that. feel free to believe what you want. those of us that understand simple physics and how it relates to cars know the truth. my point exactly. you just dont get it and probably never will. lol let me ask you something. is that dakota a 4wd and if so what do you do if the front starts plowing sliding on a curve in the snow guess you dont know what a dakota r/t is... didnt see the r/t my bad. my dak has never seen snow and it never will if i can help it. before moving to south florida 15 years ago i was driving in the hills of northern nj for about another 15 years prior. had a 4x4 bronco ii for a while up there. underpowered piece of shit but at least it handled the lousy roads and weather ok. i guess that it would with its 4wd. btw the best way to recover from a slide is to keep your feet off the pedals until you regain control. that goes for any vehicle rwd fwd 4wd or awd. once again that is completely incorrect and shows your rwd only thinking since this is only valid with a rwd. you need to think about why the front wheels are slipping. usually it is because the front wheels are not turning at road speed anymore which makes them lose traction and makes it difficult for them to get it back. with a rwd the only way to fix that is to slow down or wait and hope that they will get enough grip to spin back up. with a fwd awd or 4wd a light tap of the gas will spin the front wheels back up to speed and cause them to dig in and regain traction. i know this from experience and if you had a bronco and actually knew how to drive it you would know this as well. we can argue about this forever and get nowhere so i will end my participation in it now. i have moving to do. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .

From : chaos

sure roy only i will put a set of your blizzaks on my wifes intrepid and kick your ass all over the road. hell the way it handled that rush hour blizzard 2 years ago for my wife it probably wouldnt need them. all things being equal a fwd is still superior to a rwd in ice and snow. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving i have driven rwd fwd and 4wd in inclement weather conditions. in my opinion i would pick the fwd for running around town in ice or snow. i would like to propose a test for you rwd people. stop your rwd car on an incline beside a fwd car and see who is left spinning. been there done that. those rwd cars sure do get in the way at intersections. - that is a bs example. in snow/ice it isnt the car it is the driver and the tires. give me a rwd car and a set of blizzaks. you can bring your fwd and your wallet. roy .