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Subject:Re: RIP Click (or was he Clack?)
From:Max Wellhouse
Date:Mon, 3 Nov 2014 23:47:18 -0600

On 11/3/2014 10:40 PM, mark drillock wrote:
> I'd guess it is more likely he made it so the engine wouldn't start and
> then used the starter motor to creep up the hill without spinning the
> wheels.
>
> Mark
>
>
> Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> The reason he could not climb the driveway was, at least according to
>> the wording of the puzzle, due to slick ice and snow, not because the
>> engine wasn't running.
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>> Bend, Ore.
>>
>> On 11/03/2014 08:26 PM, David Beierl wrote:
>>> At 08:49 PM 11/3/2014, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>>> "The question was "A man has a VW Bus that won't climb up his driveway
>>>> due to slick ice and snow conditions.  He opens up the hood in the
>>>> back
>>>> and makes one adjustment and returns to the driver's seat and now the
>>>> vehicle makes it up the driveway....what did he do in the engine
>>>> compartment?"
>>>
>>> Jump-started the motor, I would imagine.
>>>
>>> Yrs,
>>> d
>>
Yes, Mark is correct.......

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