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The new exhaust system has been installed too close to the brake
line. The heat from the hot exhaust pipe is boiling the brake fluid and
causing vapour lock in the brake system.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:08
PM
Subject: Puzzler of the week
This week's puzzler:
A schoolteacher had taken
his car into us, and we had done a lot of brake work on it. He came in one day
and said, "I'm kind of disappointed. Now that the academic year is over, I've
been doing a lot more driving. During the school year, I drove back and forth
to school, and everything seemed fine. Now I'm on summer vacation, and I've
been taking a lot of long distance trips.
"I've noticed that if I'm
driving on the highway for any period of time, when I get off the highway I
often lose the brakes. I step on the brakes and they sink to the floor."
So, we put the car on the lift and we pulled off the wheels. We went
over everything we had done to the car, checking to see if the calipers were
free, the brake hoses free. Everything was fine.
Crusty, meanwhile,
was just sitting there in the inky shadows not saying a thing. Finally, after
we determined there was nothing wrong with the brakes, Crusty said, "When did
you have the exhaust system replaced?"
The fellow says, "As a matter
of fact I did have it replaced -- just before the end of the school year."
Crusty says, "That's the problem."
And that's the question.
How in the world could someone's exhaust system affect his
brakes?
Last week's puzzler:
While we were way up north
this fall looking at the New England foliage, we visited our friend, Doug
Mayer. He said, "There's a road right near my house that runs directly north
and south."
I said, "Yeah? Show me."
And Mayer says, "I can
put my car on this road and point it north, and drive for a mile and when I'm
done, I'm a mile south of where I started."
The question is very
simple: How's he doing it?
Last week's puzzler
answer:
How does he do it? He puts it in reverse and drives
backwards._______________________
Scott
MacLean
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