California driver written test

[sandcastle1]

what is a DMV written test? Are you getting a permit?

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 14:45:34 05/22/23) Dont forget that before self adjusting brakes,you had to manually adjust your brakes once in awhile. If your brakes were not adjusted properly you had to pump the pedal. I remember doing this on my first car because the brakes needed adjusting, it was a 50 mercury.!

Before self adjusting brakes, if you needed to take up on them you applied them while moving in reverse.

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 10:53:34 05/22/23)

(quoted from post at 13:28:36 05/22/23)

When did people start calling the parking break an emergency brake? I think that it was recent.

ackwards....parking is the more recent term.

Yes, it has been parking brake for probably twenty years, but online lately I am seeing "e-brake", and rarely parking brake.

 

[jimg.allentown]

That only works with self-adjusting brakes. Non-self-adjusting brakes MUST be adjusted MANUALLY using a brake spoon
or similar tool.

That backing up and applying the brakes thing was how you adjusted and centered the brake shoes after a brake job.

 

[T.R.K.]

That was taught here in NC back in the early 80s. The idea is that if its only the master cylinder, a pump or two will cause the seal cup to actually seal and give you some braking.

(That actally worked for me back in the 90s. The pedal went to the floor, but took hold on the second pump.)

 

[37 chief]

We take a written test here in calif. every five years. no pass no license. Stan

 

[MarkB_MI]

> Facing down hill, front wheels turned to the right. Facing uphill, front wheels turned to the left if there is a curb, to the right if only a shoulder.

Correct. I have only seen this on the CA driver test, even though I've also been licensed in the mountainous states of Colorado and North Carolina. It's a simple thing that every driver should know.

 

[jimg.allentown]

That is not necessarily true on trucks.
Having worked on MANY pickups over the years and replacing REAR brakes on many of them, I can say with authority that the read brakes on pickups are capable of doing most of the braking. They are designed to carry loads. Granted thart when driving empty, the front brakes do most of the braking, but when loaded, it is just the opposite - the rears then take over as the dominant brake.

 

[jimg.allentown]

Dual brake systems with dual master cylinders were introduced on the 1967 model year, and mandated from that point forward. Some of the early systems were difficult to service due to misunderstanding of proportioning valves and proper bleeding procedures.

 

[dr sportster]

I lost brakes and limped home on pumping pedal I also had to stop at 7/11 for more fluid but I made it . It was stressful.

 

[sandcastle1]

that sounds like harassment and wasting folks time

 

[ss55]

Are you thinking of diesel engines with automatic transmissions not having much engine braking?

Cars and trucks with gasoline engines and automatic transmissions have very good engine braking when manually downshifted. When manually down shifted the sprag clutch is locked to keep it from freewheeling so the wheels stay mechanically connected to the engine. Over the last five years I have driven drove several Ford 700 U-Haul 26 foot moving trucks with V-10 gas engines and automatic transmissions. Set the transmission switch into Haul/Tow mode and the transmission would row down through the gears by itself when slowing down. The engine would rev up to around 4000 rpm on each down shift drastically reducing the use of brakes even with a full load.

 

[ss55]

sandcastle1,
Are you saying a drivers license should be an unconditional right rather than an earned privilege?

 

[ss55]

That may only show that no only do most of us never read the drivers license manual, we don't read our car's owner's manual either, LOL.