How does TJ Cruise Control behave?

A Model T was the first motorized vehicle to make it from Silverton, over Cinnamon Pass, to Lake City. There is a fellow in Silverton, who owns about ten of them, in varying states of repair and restoration. This includes one with an original snowmobile kit installed. It has a rear tag axle, a set of chains that goes over both rear tires on each side, and skis where the front wheels used to be.

Earle

You can get a rock crawling electronic hand throttle for the wrangler, but it is expensive. I'll dig about and try to remember who makes it. Rubicon Express did it the old fashioned way with no electronics and something which looked suspiciously like a bicycle gear lever which attached to the gear leaver.

TJ is the only vehicle I've owned which will let you get above 20 going through the gears without touching the throttle (when cold).

Not working under 35 MPH is a major flaw in my mind. Often I would like to hold about 28 MPH in 3rd gear in a 25 zone that has speed traps. I think that they could have set it up so it would hold at any speed. One of my biggest disappointments for the TJ. Tomes

"Nick

According to tests done at the University of Connecticut "deer whistles" are a fraud and a waste of money. Those that whistle at all do so at a frequency well outside the hearing range of deer.

Tomes wrote:

I don't know if anyone else watches a cable show called Mith Busters but they tested every thing that has to do with Deer repellant for autos and to no suprise they all do not work it was very interesting.

Yeah, I expected this reaction, np. Well, here is my personal evidence, for whatever it is worth.

I have the whistles on my vehicles. They fell off (maybe 8 years ago on a Nova) and then within a week I hit 2 deer (glancing blows, no real damage other than a slight dent) [at the same spot on the same road even]. I put them back on and have not had any issue since, except once where a deer managed to time a car coming the other way, missed that one and landed on my hood going the other way [a non-whistle affected event from my position].

I see with my eyes how the deer react when I drove my vehicles with the whistles and how they react when I am in different cars. This is what I am going by. I see them freeze and look at me. I see them take less notice without the whistles. So I keep them on and recommend that others do as well, then the others can do what they want. I have no idea if they are doing anything since I cannot hear them, but I see what I see. I have also heard the detractions of them as well. No problem either way, just my perspective. Tomes

Texas A&M Test utilizing live deer

Thanks, Billy Ray. We live in the Sierra Nevada, with two twin Jeep Grand Cherokees, and a bunch of deer, and deer whistles just don't work. Wish they did, but the deer don't hear any better than we do, in the ultrasonic range.

They do take notice of a good long blast from the horn.

Earle

Every once in a while, some town official comes by, and says that the Model Ts that are parked on the street, have to be tagged with a valid vehicle license plate. When that happens, "temporary" tags from the county court house, usually last him a year. One time he was told that he would have to get a business license, because he had so many cars. He never buys or sells anything, except at swap meets or what you would call a private sale. The people that we have working for the town, are even more stupid than our elected officials. Some of them seem OK, but I figure that they are all guilty by association.

The tourists love looking at the Model Ts, and talking to the owner.

Earle

Now there's an idea for a deer whistle!

Earle

Billy Ray did pass the time by typing:

Yep. Too bad they don't actually work.

Dog whistle

Earle

Yeah I agree to lose the argument based upon testing, no problem. I just see what I see and keep then on.

Tomes