John M McIntosh wrote:
On 7-Oct-05, at 3:41 PM, Marshall Booth wrote:
The parking pawl must NEVER be used instead of the parking brake.
To use
the parking pawl alone risks it failing and repair of a broken pawl is
expensive.
Marshall I could send my wife your note, that might work better t
Drove delivery vans for a while. Got to learn first hand to ALWAYS set
the parking brake, no matter hill or flat. Jumped out to grab a
package, and threw it into park, and set brake. Slight incline, chased
the truck down to the intersection. Got back to the yard and had the
thing looked at.
On 7-Oct-05, at 3:41 PM, Marshall Booth wrote:
The parking pawl must NEVER be used instead of the parking brake.
To use
the parking pawl alone risks it failing and repair of a broken pawl is
expensive.
Marshall I could send my wife your note, that might work better than
my reminders that s
ya, mine stays put when on park but i hate the sound it makes if you release
it from park on a hill, so I keep it with there with the parking brake AND
(<---ala Marshall) set to park AFTER the brake holds it.
On 10/7/05, Marshall Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> John M McIntosh wrote:
> > Sigh
John M McIntosh wrote:
Sigh, it's always nice when you spouse says, dear the car did a funny
thing on me today,
so she discovered the hard way, well nothing got damaged or killed,
that when she stop the
92 300TDt on the downside of a slight hill by our gate and put it
into park, started to
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:44:12PM -0700, Gabriel S. wrote:
> my 87 300d does the same thing on hills...i found it strange at first but
> i've gotten used to it.
The hill thing has to do with there being a high stall speed in the torque
converter, used to offset a 2.65:1 rear end (or thereabouts)
So is this normal behaviour?
PS I'll note a month back we replaced the transmission mounts, and
engine mounts (thanks Rusty) so perhaps the
linkages aren't right anymore and the pawl isn't sitting right (I
hope), so I've scheduled the dealer to poke at it late next week.
Alas my wife's brai
my 87 300d does the same thing on hills...i found it strange at first but
i've gotten used to it.
On 10/7/05, John M McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Sigh, it's always nice when you spouse says, dear the car did a funny
> thing on me today,
> so she discovered the hard way, well nothing got
Sigh, it's always nice when you spouse says, dear the car did a funny
thing on me today,
so she discovered the hard way, well nothing got damaged or killed,
that when she stop the
92 300TDt on the downside of a slight hill by our gate and put it
into park, started to get out, the car
proce
