Push starting, also known as bump starting, roll starting, clutch starting, popping the clutch or crash starting, is a method of starting a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine that has a manual transmission, a mechanical fuel pump, and a mechanically driven generator or alternator.
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banger
- A thing or person which bangs, in any sense.
- Coordinate terms: bang, gangbang, gangbanger
- (automotive, slang) An old, worn-out car. From a stereotypical one backfiring, making banging noises.
- Synonyms: bucket, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock, shitbox, rustbucket; see also Thesaurus:old car
- (US, automotive, slang) A car or an engine; referring to the cylinders of an engine in a car. From the explosive bangs on every cylinder firing.
- He drives a little four-banger to work.
- (curling) One of the rocks that end up crashing against another, making banging sounds, after a throw.
- (curling) One of the rocks that results in a score at the finish of an end.
- (Britain, sexuality, slang) A woman's breast.
- (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, food, slang) A sausage.
- Synonym: (Australia) snag
- (US, crime, slang) Clipping of gangbanger; a member of a gang.
- (Britain, music, slang) A powerfully energetic piece of music, especially dance music.
- (slang, by extension) Any particularly good or pleasing thing.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
ISOFIX

ISOFIX is the international standard for attachment points for child safety seats in passenger cars. The system is also known as LATCH ("Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children") in the United States and LUAS ("Lower Universal Anchorage System") or Canfix in Canada. It has also been called the "Universal Child Safety Seat System" or UCSSS.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Saxomat
Saxomat was a type of automatic clutch. The Hydrak, used in some Mercedes-Benz vehicles between 1957 and 1961, was a similar system with a hydrostatic torque converter in place of the Saxomat's centrifugal clutch. The system also reappeared in the 1990s as Sensonic.
Cars with a Saxomat clutch did not have a clutch pedal. The Saxomat consisted of two independent systems, the centrifugal clutch, and the servo clutch. The centrifugal clutch was engaged above certain engine rpms by centrifugal force, acting on spinning weights inside the clutch, similar to a centrifugal governor.
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