On Wed, 28 May 1997, David Deutsch wrote:
> There's a line for you: "Hey babe, you want to hop out and help me rock
> the car a little?"
>
> You wrote:
> >
> >I'm going with the starter people on this one. My former 67 locked up
> from
> >time to time. I could disengage by rocking the car back and forth.
> Having no
> >money in my ill-spent youth, I just lived with it, but certainly
> wouldn't
> >recommend such, especially if it does it frequently. Mine usually only
> did
> >it's lockup when I had a girl in the car with me. . .not at all as
> often as
> >I would have liked ;-)
> >
> >Michael, New Bern, NC
I've told this before, so long-timers can tune out. A college friend had
a 50 Ford that locked up this way one day. I showed him the rocking trick
and freed it up. One evening, I got a call from him. It had locked
again, and he and his girlfriend had been rocking the car back and forth
for a half-hour without getting it to free up. By this point, they were
hot and sweaty and thoroughly out of sorts. I asked him what gear he
had it in. He replied, "It didn't want to move, so I put it in neutral to
make it easier to push." A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
W. R. Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8629
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