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Originally Posted by dissimilation
On the way down I got a surprise when my brakes lost power. Since then I have learned what a vacuum booster is and how it temporarily provides power to the brakes when the engine is shut off.
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Did the vacuum go away because you were tapping the brakes here and there, or did it lose it over time with no braking?
I hope you also learned that you can still stop without assis - you just need to put your leg into it
much harder. I'd recommend trying that sometime too - purposefully depleting the vac reserve on an empty road/lot and doing a couple of rapid stops. Just FYI.
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Now that I've been back in town and back to normal driving, I've refilled and I'm out to see just how high a milage I can do on one tank.
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Woo! That's the spirit.
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Fun stuff! I definitely have been noticing when I take repetitive and familiar routes in my car I can be very accurate in my EOC and P&G timing, where I have a whole lot of practice to do to get such accuracy on unfamiliar roads.
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Just like a race car driver will have lower lap times on a familiar track. Knowing the road helps immensely.
It is satisfying, with some practice in this style of driving, how you can develop the ability to look down a grade or a stretch of road towards a stop and are able to judge just when to get off the power to coast to a stop at the right spot.