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Subject:Re: Tranny musings (or, getting stuck on my lawn)
From:Roy Nicholl
Date:Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:07:00 -0300

Sounds like the old Cockshutt 30 we had when I was a kid ... 

On 28-Aug-2014, at 17:00, Al Knoll wrote:

> In days of yore, the vw faithful might have used a dual brake system for the rear.  A poor man's limited slip perhaps.  Two levers to independently apply the parking brake to the side that lost traction.  Hear tell it worked.  You do have a splitter in the cable system. Maybe Alistair could rig up the proper mechanism.  Three levers.  One for the locking parking brake you now have and two others working on the individual cables to avoid the slippage.
> 
> Pensionerd.  
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> Brand new (<6000km), Nokian eNTYRE ... same thing that is on the Jetta which pulled it out.
> 
> On 28-Aug-2014, at 15:28, Karl Wolz wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps you should be taking a look at the condition and type of tires you're using.
> >
> > Karl Wolz
> > Sent from my electronic umbilicus
> >
> >> On Aug 27, 2014, at 8:19 PM, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA> wrote:
> >>
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