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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
I'm sure it might not be nearly as hard to start uphill as some underpowered econoboxes I learned to drive with. The only thing that annoys me when it comes to some American-designed trucks is the foot-activated parking brake.
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Up here, 99% or more of the parking brakes don't function for anything domestic made. Every Toyota I've used with the center console style pull lever parking brake worked fine. My 1990 Lexus one even works, but the shoes are bad inside the rotor (4 wheel disc brakes with an inner drum for the rear parking brake).
My sister is around quite a few people that drive manuals, so if something happened to them and she was the only driver, she would either have to drive the vehicle, or wait for help. She can be kind of strange sometimes, like when I changed the trans fluid in my truck, she wanted to watch/help. She got the chance to pull her first drain plug, did about 100x better than me for how much oil got on her hand.
I suspect she's torn a bit between trying to be a "girly girl" like online (movies, advertising, etc) suggests women "should" be like, and a country girl as that's where she lives and the people around her act like.
Small update, went about 145 miles till the front tank hit 1/2. Should be interesting to see what the final tally comes out to so I can better judge the fuel usage with out filling. If the gauge was perfect and "E" was truly empty, that should be 9.5gal or 15.3mpg, but I know that's not how pretty much any vehicle is. I'm guessing "E" might be say 20% of the tank, so half should would be something like 7.6gal or 19.1mpg which is pretty close to what I'd guess I'm getting. Best case 25% for the E line would be about 20.4mpg, or the gauge is so wildly off it's a crap shoot xD. Either case, I guess I'm somewhere between 19 and 21mpg with a lot of short trips, like 8-10 miles country back road style driving.
I did do the idle engine oil temp check and the oil heated up one degree while idling, I only waited a couple mins though since I was empty and it was a fairly easy trip on the truck (very little boost).
Also, found the drain on my fuel bowl is effectively clogged up, even with the engine running it very slowly drips. Fuel heater was unplugged and the element separated from the plate and the bottom of the fuel bowl was quite dirty. For not running with no fuel heater (the heat of the engine should heat the fuel on it's own fairly well). If the fuel is going to gel, then it's too late to heat it afterwards. I read it might be for any water build up to stay water and not ice. Either case, it's something like $80 from rock auto and I read a lot of people not bothering replacing theirs so probably going to cheap out unless there's a solid reason to have it in there. If it's just to heat the fuel up, using the engine coolant heat to heat it up seems more logical than an extra electrical load on the engine.
Oh, I did drive a bit faster for one trip, was running late etc. I could watch the fuel needle drop lol.