Date:         Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:29:48 +0500
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         wigley@server.uwindsor.ca (Neil Wigley)
Subject:      Re: How I got home from work (broken clutch cable)

>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