>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 > And double-clutching is no big deal: I learned how on the family '39 Ford. Only took a couple of weeks and a bit of gnashing of teeth, both automotive and paternal. But it is fun in a VW! Best of all was the VW Standard which I don't think ever made it to these shores: it had a non-synchro transmission, and double-clutching was absolutely necessary for down-shifting. Neil Neil Wigley U of Windsor Windsor Ontario Home of Canada's First Socialist Casino
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