Thread: Won't start - wimpy foot
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 05:18 PM
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Default Re: Won't start - wimpy foot
Originally Posted by Kodebuster
I've also noticed on my manual that I have to have the clutch fully engaged, that means the pedal way down, to engage the starter.

I've been drivin a stick for ages, and my mind is so conditioned to engaging the clutch, before turning the key, that it's pathetic.

When the weather thaws, I'm tempted to hunt down that switch, and permenantly jump out the wires.

I don't need no stinking limit switch to know how to start a car with a manual tranny...lol...
A woman who lived behind my mother in law in the early seventies started her manual tranny car and it was in gear. My mother in law heard a bang and saw the surprised woman was sitting on her back lawn having punched a hole through the back of her garage.
The garage floor was at least a foot or so above the lawn, so it must have looked like a Thelma and Louise shot as she come through the wall.
It was tough getting the car back into the garage, as the way back in was the way it had come out.
Moral - keep the switch.
 
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