Not to mention your throw out bearing.
bmc  :)
Ben McCafferty
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Volks Cafe
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> From: Mick Kalber <redhotlava@HAWAII.RR.COM>
> Reply-To: Mick Kalber <redhotlava@HAWAII.RR.COM>
> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 09:51:41 -1000
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: neutral at stop lights
>
> I have always shifted into neutral at a stoplight in all my manual
> transmission vw's... it's a hold over from the old T2 days when I was taught
> that holding in the clutch would wear out the clutch cable faster (they wore
> out fast enough asit was).  so the habit was established long ago and I
> still do it.  no problem slipping her into first when the light changes or
> just before.  I think you'd have to be pretty inept to fumble around with
> the stick long enough to seriously hold up traffic.
>
> Mick Kalber
> Tropical Visions Video, Inc.
> 62 Halaulani Place
> Hilo, Hawaii 96720
> 808-935-5557
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