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Date:         Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:07:17 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: push start
Comments: To: Doug Alcock <dgalcock@HEWITT.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <862569D2.006BB956.00@lintng1.hewitt.com>
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At 02:36 PM 1/12/2001, Doug Alcock wrote:
>I've also bump started mine a couple of times. I've also heard that you're
>not supposed to bump start vanagons in reverse. Has anyone else heard this??
>What difference could it make??


It *could* break the transmission housing.  I hear that if you push-start
(the word "bump" scares me -- I hope you're talking about letting in the
clutch smoothly while the vehicle is moving?) a Syncro in granny-gear that
it definitely *will* disembowel the transmission...personally I prefer
second gear to minimize this sort of nastiness.


david




David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"
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