<VV> Clutch Cable

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

>Tell me about it!!!!! 
>

Okay, I will!  DO AS JR SAID!  "Practice driving without using the 
clutch (in advance) ... "

Match engine rpm with road speed for whichever gear you select, and slip 
it in.  Helpful to double clutch the downshifts.  Slip it into neutral 
to stop (I often still do this - save the throwout gearing for when you 
need it) -- turn it off and put it in gear then crank to start up again 
(starting it in gear -- a big advantage of cars that have not succumbed 
to excessive legislation -- mo).

Practicing is to give you the confidence of knowing you can do it, so 
when the skill is needed, you just drive on, instead of calling for a 
tow in downtown LA (or someplace your phone doesn't work).  OR, you can 
wait until the inevitable happens, and try to learn on the spot, knowing 
that it can be done.

Don't remember braking any early cables - must have been close to home 
-- but do remember breaking one a couple hundred miles away in a Corsa, 
and driving it home.  Things are much easier if your car isn't hard to 
start.

I learned you can do this on an old Ford 8-N tractor (no synchros -- 
sorta like Formula 1, but slower) when I was a budding teenager.  You 
wouldn't let some kid show you up, now would you, Scotty?

Bill Strickland