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Subject:Re: Auto conversion to Manual?
From:Mike Collum
Date:Fri, 18 May 2007 21:46:19 -0400

If you were going to be in remote areas with an automatic, you'd at
least want an aux battery and a spare starter onboard.  Preferably, the
aux battery would be hooked up via a Sure Power 1315 and 4 gauge cables
so that the aux could provide a boost for the starting battery without
having to jumper them together.

Mike
'84 GL 7 pass automatic
'84 GL Westy 4 speed
'85 GL Westy 4 speed

Jake de Villiers wrote:
> " You can't push-start an automatic"
>
> That's the deal killer right there.  Fifteen miles up a logging road in BC
> with a dead battery you most definitely do not want an automatic.