Date:         Tue, 7 Jun 2005 16:25:26 -0400
Reply-To:     Karl Ploessl <ploessl@SUNMAC.SPECT.UPENN.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Ploessl <ploessl@SUNMAC.SPECT.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: newbie - where is the gas???
Comments: To: Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
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you wrote:

I had been driving with a cast on my right foot for awhile.What I have
found myself doing in your situation, is to put  my right hand on the
parking brake and pull up on this at a stop light.When I think the light is
about to change, I find the friction point where the clutch pedel starts to
grab(while the parking brake is on). The light turns green , and I
simultaniously release the parking brake and continue to let the clutch
pedal out.Works real smooooth.I drove big stick shift trucks for years, but
still needed to do this, and even do it still sometimes. The clutch is so
weak in the vanagon. This reduces clutch chatter, and makes me feel that I
know what I am doing.
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actually that is the way you are "supposed" to do it. This is one of
the tests/requirements for getting a drivers license in Germany:
starting up a hill with proper use of the emergency/parking brake.
--
Karl
'81 Westy "Jenny"
Wilmington, DE