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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:40 am    Post subject: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:31 am    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

That video made me dizzy. From the 1968 owners manual.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:59 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

meh...

this is how you do it


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:03 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

I just put paint marks on the speedometer showing VW's recommended maximum speed in each gear just like a Type 1 has. In general I seldom actually look at them and shift by ear instead.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:26 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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There is no doubt that a good woman driver is as good or better than the best male drivers. 40 years back I ended up waiting for a couple of hours at the exit of a truck stop that was extremely steep, maybe 25%? Almost all the male drivers either stalled their engines as they made their first shift from the stop or ended up with the rpms so low they couldn't accelerate and would have to stop and start again in 1st, a few just didn't shift and ran in 1st for several hundred yards until the road leveled out before going into 2nd. Of the woman I watched (who at that time made up maybe 5% of the drivers) all made the 1-2 shift on the grade like there was no difficulty at all.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:42 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

How about shifts, ascending and descending mountains. Type1 vs type4 engines.
Erb apparently has all years of buses. So let’s see how’s it’s done.
Now what if someone has taller gears in their bus? Would the same rules apply? Tire diameter play any part in this? So many questions.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:55 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

I put paint marks on my ears so I can hear the shift points better.

Don’t you have to correct fir one Canadian rpm is 75% of a US rpm, too? Or is it the other way around ?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:43 am    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:35 am    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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haha you'll just have to wait for the 1971 supplement.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 2:03 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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How about shifts, ascending and descending mountains. Type1 vs type4 engines.
Erb apparently has all years of buses. So let’s see how’s it’s done.
Now what if someone has taller gears in their bus? Would the same rules apply? Tire diameter play any part in this? So many questions.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:42 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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skills@eurocarsplus wrote:
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this is how you do it]


There is no doubt that a good woman driver is as good or better than the best male drivers. 40 years back I ended up waiting for a couple of hours at the exit of a truck stop that was extremely steep, maybe 25%? Almost all the male drivers either stalled their engines as they made their first shift from the stop or ended up with the rpms so low they couldn't accelerate and would have to stop and start again in 1st, a few just didn't shift and ran in 1st for several hundred yards until the road leveled out before going into 2nd. Of the woman I watched (who at that time made up maybe 5% of the drivers) all made the 1-2 shift on the grade like there was no difficulty at all.


Lots of women truck drivers today. I’ve been in the trucking business my whole life. About 10 plus years ago trucks really started heading toward automatic transmissions. A lot of the old school drivers were ‘offended’ at the idea of driving an automatic. I’ve heard many a driver complain that “even a broad can drive it.” Needless to say, once they started driving them they never wanted to go back to manuals, whether they would admit it or not. Why someone would be against something that makes their job a thousand times easier is beyond me. Ironically, I don’t think I would buy an ACVW that wasn’t a manual, but I’d be happy to never shift a truck again.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 4:49 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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Wildthings wrote:
skills@eurocarsplus wrote:
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this is how you do it]


There is no doubt that a good woman driver is as good or better than the best male drivers. 40 years back I ended up waiting for a couple of hours at the exit of a truck stop that was extremely steep, maybe 25%? Almost all the male drivers either stalled their engines as they made their first shift from the stop or ended up with the rpms so low they couldn't accelerate and would have to stop and start again in 1st, a few just didn't shift and ran in 1st for several hundred yards until the road leveled out before going into 2nd. Of the woman I watched (who at that time made up maybe 5% of the drivers) all made the 1-2 shift on the grade like there was no difficulty at all.


Lots of women truck drivers today. I’ve been in the trucking business my whole life. About 10 plus years ago trucks really started heading toward automatic transmissions. A lot of the old school drivers were ‘offended’ at the idea of driving an automatic. I’ve heard many a driver complain that “even a broad can drive it.” Needless to say, once they started driving them they never wanted to go back to manuals, whether they would admit it or not. Why someone would be against something that makes their job a thousand times easier is beyond me. Ironically, I don’t think I would buy an ACVW that wasn’t a manual, but I’d be happy to never shift a truck again.


I work for a trucking company also. All the old school drivers hate the new automatics. They all same the same thing, they done put the power down to the ground, especially with chains on in the snow.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 8:14 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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Wildthings wrote:
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There is no doubt that a good woman driver is as good or better than the best male drivers. 40 years back I ended up waiting for a couple of hours at the exit of a truck stop that was extremely steep, maybe 25%? Almost all the male drivers either stalled their engines as they made their first shift from the stop or ended up with the rpms so low they couldn't accelerate and would have to stop and start again in 1st, a few just didn't shift and ran in 1st for several hundred yards until the road leveled out before going into 2nd. Of the woman I watched (who at that time made up maybe 5% of the drivers) all made the 1-2 shift on the grade like there was no difficulty at all.


Lots of women truck drivers today. I’ve been in the trucking business my whole life. About 10 plus years ago trucks really started heading toward automatic transmissions. A lot of the old school drivers were ‘offended’ at the idea of driving an automatic. I’ve heard many a driver complain that “even a broad can drive it.” Needless to say, once they started driving them they never wanted to go back to manuals, whether they would admit it or not. Why someone would be against something that makes their job a thousand times easier is beyond me. Ironically, I don’t think I would buy an ACVW that wasn’t a manual, but I’d be happy to never shift a truck again.


I exclusively buy manual cars, not because I'm some kind of manual elitist, but because I have yet to find an automatic transmission that will go more than 150,000 miles without developing issues, even with regular fluid and filter changes.

Meanwhile, it seems like basically any manual transmission should get you to 250,000+ Miles as long as you keep oil in it and know how to shift.

My 1999 Subaru Legacy went almost 500,000 miles on the original transmission before a bearing failed.

I honestly love CVT Transmissions, they're fantastic if you do a lot of stop and go city driving. Unfortunately those are even more unreliable than a standard torque converter based automatic.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 9:48 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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I exclusively buy manual cars, not because I'm some kind of manual elitist, but because I have yet to find an automatic transmission that will go more than 150,000 miles without developing issues, even with regular fluid and filter changes.


For Vanagons the automatics have a much better history than do the manuals, and this is accentuated when people swap in larger engines, particularly turbo Diesels.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:17 pm    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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Lots of women truck drivers today..


i've been running under the farm exemption for years. basically i could drive anything in pretty much any condition 150 miles from "home base"

anyway a few years ago i finally decided to get my CDL. i just took a class because it was a million times easier to go thru the DMV end of things. anyway, couple of women were in the class i was in.

1 i swear to God didn't know how to drive, period let alone a duplex or triplex. a quadraplex was for sure out of the fucking question. the other woman rowed gears like a fucking boss.

i chatted her up a bit as we were in the same group. turns out she came from a long line of truckers.

the "men" in my class were of the skinny jean lotioned hand cosmopolitan drinking variety. i'd say a good 2/3 of them never drove a manual, let alone a truck....and by truck i mean a full sized pickup

scary to think some of the truck drivers out there are afraid of their own shadow.

anyway, if you didn't test on a manual for your CDL you had a restriction stamped on your license you could only drive automatic trucks. driving a duplex all the way up to a quadraplex is a lost art these days.

that said, if i were doing this professionally fuck yea i'd want an automatic. you ever see a clutch cable on a Mack? it's about the diameter of a broom stick and 7' long going to actuate a pressure plate about the size of the tire on your bus. i'd take a automatic any day in that case
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 6:13 am    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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the "men" in my class were of the skinny jean lotioned hand cosmopolitan drinking variety. i'd say a good 2/3 of them never drove a manual, let alone a truck....and by truck i mean a full sized pickup


My favorite is when you pull off at the chain up station at the bottom of the pass to chain up, cause there’s a chain law in effect. Then some dude comes up to you wearing shorts, flip flops with socks and asks you if he can have a set of chains. “You don’t have any chains?” “No, I didn’t know I would have to be driving in snow.” “Dude, you’re in Colorado in the middle of winter.” So there goes numb nuts up the pass with no chains on. A short time later you’re rolling up on numb nuts stuck on the pass and effing up traffic.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 7:36 am    Post subject: Re: driving tips for your stock 1968-1970 vw bus Reply with quote

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I exclusively buy manual cars, not because I'm some kind of manual elitist, but because I have yet to find an automatic transmission that will go more than 150,000 miles without developing issues, even with regular fluid and filter changes.


For Vanagons the automatics have a much better history than do the manuals, and this is accentuated when people swap in larger engines, particularly turbo Diesels.


I had a Challenger 340 R\T in high school, loved that car. Broke my foot a week after graduation and had to get something with an automatic to get me through the summer. That was the last time I had a daily driver that was a stick, outside of a 12V Cummins that you could almost treat the 4 speed as an automatic with all that torque.

I've never had an automatic crap out on me, even the 42\44\45\46RE Mopar trans that everyone says is "like glass." No, it is a stout transmission, you just need to RTFM and do the band adjustments correctly (or at all). The dealer techs never would do these unless specifically instructed Sad.
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I like driving a stick for leisure, for day-to-day, slushbox all the way.
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