Re: What sucks about flux


"Frank Bemelman" <f.bemelmanq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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> > Hello Fred,
> >
> > > Or the semi-centrifugal clutch that pinned a buddy of mine against a
> wall
> > > when he left it in gear and went around the front to get something
from
> > > the back of the garage?
> >
> > The Citroen 2CV? I never saw any like that. When did they build those?
> > The 2CV typically (maybe always) had a four speed, regular clutch and
> > the gears were located a bit reversed. 1st was left and back, 2nd was
> > forward etc. Like some Datsuns except that the 2CV didn't have a 5th
> > gear. The stick came straight out of the middle of the dash and looked
> > like a cane.
> >
> > A car that had a centrifugal clutch was the Dutch DAF and very few small
> > Volvos after they bought DAF and produced them there. That's the only
> > case I know of.
>
> Memories... I parked my fathers' DAF66 against a tree, at 90 KM/Hr. He
> bought
> a Volvo66 to replace it.
>

Back in the late '60s, police in the Netherlands used DAF's as local patrol
cars.
One winter in Eindhoven they found out the hard way how badly those
centrifugal
clutches behaved on ice - I forget how many crashed, but I believe they
changed
the vehicles they used shortly after.

Regards
Ian


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