---- Erin Daniels <eirejammer@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Use the starter motor? Is that when it chugs forward but doesn't start? The wheels don't turn then?

With the vehicle in gear, the starter motor turns the engine, which turns the wheels.  However, in my experience, that is not a smooth motion, rather jerky.
>
> > 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

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David McNeely