Park on a good long hill?

> On Nov 21, 2013, at 3:36 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote:
> 
> Yes, they don't need many electrons to run but diesel Vanagons are
> pretty hard to start by hand. Maybe a rope around the crank pulley would
> do it? They do have an extra belt grove on the outer edge of the crank
> pulley, maybe I can cut a notch for the knot in the end of a rope and
> give it a try.
> 
> Mark
> 
> Angus Gordon wrote:
>> Modern cars tend to use electric fuel pumps and fuel injection so you need some electrons anyway. If you want to ditch the ignition system, buy a diesel.
>> 
>> Angus
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:52 PM, JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Airplanes do - why not cars?? LOL! Well, actually - nowadays there is a
>>> lock on the master switch in many of them. Plus cars don run on magnetos
>>> which do not require external power to operate in the same way a
>>> distributor does.
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>>> On 11/21/2013 11:58 AM, mark drillock wrote:
>>>> Do you want an additional manual switch that could be switched on with
>>>> the key out?
>>