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.
Also See:
safety goggles

Going horizontal:

Trucker slang for going to sleep as in "At darktime I'm goin' horizontal."

Gold plating:

The electrolytic deposition of gold

Goodies:

See:
bolt-on goodies

Goods:

See:
heavy goods vehicle

Goods vehicle:

See:
heavy goods vehicle

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"

Gooseneck:

Colloquial term for a stem--the component that holds the handlebars of a bicycle and mounts to the steerer tube.

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 See their site at http://www.gore-tex.com

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 "used" 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.

Also See:
centrifugal governor
transmission governor

Governor plate:

See:
contact breaker plate

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

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