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Subject:Re: RIP Click (or was he Clack?)
From:Erin Daniels
Date:Mon, 3 Nov 2014 21:57:01 -0800

Use the starter motor? Is that when it chugs forward but doesn't start? The wheels don't turn then?

> On Nov 3, 2014, at 9:47 PM, Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET> wrote:
> 
>> 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.......
> 
> DM&FS