bachmanb@SMTPGW1.PLK.AF.MIL wrote: > Hmmmm. > > My '91 seems to do pretty good holding itself back with the > automatic; > 'course one shouldn't downshift at too high a speed.... -Blaine My wife tried the same trick but under differend circumstances. While living in Colorado, our '84 didn't have what you would call excess power( suprise!) . While trying to merge onto I-25 in traffic she attempted to pull it down into 2nd to get a little more umph. Now all of this is normally fine and I have done it often. The problem is that I forgot to point out to her that you must not push that little button on the shifter when excited and attempting this manuever. I got a call @ work on a police cellular phone from my SO casually mentioning that the van stalled and would not re-start. Leave work, find them on the side of a 4 lane expressway, Van no run... Pulled the plugs and had her turn it over.... No compression... tow it home. Now I had only rebuilt this motor a month previous so at least there were no stuck bolts. LESSON: a vanagon auto WILL go into 1st gear at 65 mph, if you don't mind replacing all of the exhaust valves. I never calculated the resultant RPM's but I'll bet it was impressive... Mark
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