At 12:35 AM 11/16/95 -0600, Cheese wrote: >Why stop to fix it at all? When this happens to me, I just drive it home >and fix it there. You just gotta (look both ways first) put the bus in >first gear, turn the starter over until the bus starts and give it some gas. >You just gotta get the revs of the engine just right (so that the rpms of >the engine match the rpms of the tranny?) before you make a decisive shift >into second and so on. When you get good enough at it, the gears hardly >grind at all.. > >Cheese > > hey Cheese... I once drove my '71 Westy home to Chicago from Columbus, Ohio with a non-working starter motor, a malfunctioning idle-stop solenoid and then to add to my frustration the clutch cable broke. the only problems i had was when I approached stopped traffic for road repairs and then when I got near Chicago at the toll booths. Mind you I was power shifting, and operating this Bus with two hands and three feet. Oh my brake pedal started sticking in the depressed position as well so I added a piece of rope so as I could pull up on the brake pedal after I depressed it. Yes indeed I was quite a nervous wreck when I got home. And you know what? now that I look back at it, if i were driving anything but a VW, this trip would have ended in a very large tow bill! Peace. :) Peter DePaoli Carbondale,IL '71 Westy '69 Camper 73 Super Beetle
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