DICTIONARY OF AUTOMOTIVE TERMS - "Go"
- Go dull
- A condition of paint that has lost its luster
- Go flat
- A condition of paint that has lost its luster.
- Goggles
- Protective spectacles against dust and glare.
- Going horizontal
- Trucker slang for going to sleep as in "At darktime I'm goin' horizontal".
- Gold plating
- The electrolytic deposition of gold
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Gondola
- A coal hopper bottom trailers or large produce bins that are transported on flatbeds.
- Goodies
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- Goods
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- Goods vehicle
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- Good will warranty
- Normal Warranty specifies that a product is covered
for manufacturer's defects for a period of time or distance of use. If the item
has gone beyond the normal warranty, the dealer may offer some warranty in order to
keep your business. The dealer may pick up the costs for parts and labor, or just
the labor, or 50% of the overall costs, or just a nominal sum.
- Go off
- A British term for beginning to harden, the initial phase of the hardening
process of plastic body fillers. The American term is kick
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Goose
- A colloquial term to describe a brief, rapid opening of
the throttle to accelerate quickly.
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Gooseneck
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- Colloquial term for a stem--the component that holds the handlebars of a bicycle and mounts to the
steerer tube.
- A hitch resembling the neck of a goose. Can be 5th wheel or an inverted ball hitch attachment.
Both straight trucks and tractor-trailer rigs can use goosenecks.
- Gooseneck hitch
- A trailer hitch to mount a Fifth-wheel
travel trailer
- Gooseneck map light
- A flexible-stemmed map lamp usually plugged into 12-volt socket (cigarette lighter)
- Gore-Tex®
- A fabric used in sports and outdoor clothing claiming to be waterproof,
breathable, windproof, and durable even after being washed many times. It is up to
20 times more waterproof than coated fabrics and almost twice as waterproof as any
other fabric/laminate technology. Gore-Tex® is unaffected by laundering while
most coated fabrics lose up to half of their ability to prevent water entry after
very few launderings.
- Go to the Harley
- Trucker slang for putting your CB on channel 1 as in "This channel's too busy,
lets take it to the Harley."
- Got your ears on?
- Trucker slang for "in radio reception" when asking for someone on the CB as in "Hey, J.B. you
got your ears on?"
- Gouge
- A flat, relatively large dent that has no hard contours so it can be reshaped by
shrinking using heat or with a hammer and dolly
- Gouge on it
- Trucker slang for go faster, speed it up as in "Once I get on the boulevard I'm
gonna gouge on it."
- Gouging
- Cutting of a groove in the surface of a metal using a gas cutting torch of an
arc-air cutting outfit.
- Governor
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- A device designed to automatically control the
Speed or position of some part (i.e., engine speed
or transmission speed). Governors are used to prevent an engine from exceeding
its maximum rpms. They are also used on rental vehicles to prevent operators
from exceeding the speed limit.
- A governor on the output shaft of a hydraulically controlled transmission
converts line pressure into governor pressure. In electro-hydraulically
controlled transmissions, the governor is replaced by a sensor.
- Governor plate
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- Governor pressure
- Pressure in an automatic transmission control that varies in accordance with
vehicle speed and acts on the command valves, where it opposes the control pressure
- Governor valve
- (GV) An automatic transmission control valve which converts line pressure into
vehicle-speed dependent governor pressure.
- Governor weight
- A centrifugal advance mechanism or advance weight