Re: [AMC-List] Another Re; E Stick, now Drivers

[msproviero@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Well, I can tell you that the Saturn unit my g/f got rid of just plain sucked.  They get "loud" when they go out of spec (like a starving power steering pump) and Saturn was forced to implement an extended warranty due to the almost routine failures of them.  The service techs told her that its an ongoing problem and that she could expect to be back for ratio adjustment over and over again in the future.  She got it fixed under warranty and traded it in against a 2007 non-variable drive Vue asap.

-Spro

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From: Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> Someone and I can't remember who, was it White?, made a vairable transmission 
> back in the 1910's that was a large heavy flywheel mounted to an enegine and the 
> way the car was driven was the engine speed was a constant and you moved a lever 
> which moved the drive along the face of the flywheel. Starting close to center 
> for low speed and torque moving out toward the edge as speed increased. 
> I remember reading the artice that stated the things had so much torque you 
> could put a front tire against a tree and the car would climb it vertically! 
> What I can't remember is the specifics of how it was made and worked nor who 
> made the thing! I know I remember it was never mass produced. I assume it was 
> due to a lack of reliabilty. 
> I always thought the concept was so simple that it couldn't possibly work! 
> For yeasr now I've wanted to drive on of the new variable trans cars to see what 
> it felt like! I wonder if it as unusual a feeling as the E-stick! Nissan uses 
> one in it's high horsepower Maximas, should be a blast to test drive! 
> -- 
> Mark Price 
> markprice242ATadelphia.net 
> Morgantown, WV 
> 
> 
> ---- John Elle wrote: 
> > The Dodge fluid drive was as described, 
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