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airschooled
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Asking for a friend..........
Robbie
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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No, but that crutch needs adjusting.
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SGKent 
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 6:30 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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so what's up with the ankle brace?
Maybe it is time to consider a Google car.......
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airschooled
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 6:59 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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| SGKent wrote: |
so what's up with the ankle brace?
Maybe it is time to consider a Google car....... |
I tripped and fell late last night coming down stairs. Tore the ligaments in my ankle and can’t put any weight on it for a while. I’ll be in the boot and on crutches for nearly a month. This is PRIME camping season in the desert right now! I can’t hit 20,000 miles this year now..... It will be weeeks before I can drive standard again, so I’ll have to make my annual Christmas trip a longer one. 
Robbie
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67ctbug
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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Well that sucks Robbie...
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KentABQ
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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| asiab3 wrote: |
I tripped and fell late last night coming down stairs. Tore the ligaments in my ankle and can’t put any weight on it for a while.
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I have a feeling that first sentence should have started, "I was drunk and..."
Sorry to hear about that, buddy. Let me know if you need a chauffeur to the desert. 
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tristessa
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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| asiab3 wrote: |
| I tripped and fell late last night coming down stairs. |
Don't do that. Bad things happen when you do that.
Heal fast, man. |
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Xevin
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 8:11 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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Sooo this friend you speak of  We just need to get you “Clutch-Crutch”
Link
But seriously. Someone made a gimmick called the “Clutch Crutch”
1:14 min in to see it in action. Although the presentation is so bad. You may want to watch from the beginning
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Brian
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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| KentPS wrote: |
I have a feeling that first sentence should have started, "I was drunk and... |
You sir are correct.
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KentABQ
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:56 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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I have faith you are already scheming a way to clutch with a brace on.
When I was 19, I had my right knee taken apart and rebuilt after a tumor had eaten the cartilage and was winding its way thru the muscles. It was a 9 hour surgery, with six months of physical therapy. Luckily, my brother lent me his Ford van (yes, SamboSamba... an original shaggin' wagon!)
In order to drive it, I set my right leg with full brace over the center console with my foot under the passenger dash. Then I learned how to operate the accelerator and brake with my left foot. It took a while to adjust, but after a few tries, I got pretty good at it.
So keep those remaining brain cells clear, and you'll be making your own YouTube video on driving a manual transmission Bus while wearing a brace!
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 11:27 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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It’s taking all my willpower not to run off a line of ethic jokes in poor taste about this, in the seasonal vane of “ Christmas Story”
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 11:44 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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| It’s taking all my willpower not to run off a line of ethic jokes in poor taste about this, in the seasonal vane of “ Christmas Story” |
that would be unethnical.
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alman72
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 4:41 am Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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| that really sucks. that is a lot to give up for a wicked beer holder. |
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calvinater
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 6:17 am Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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Now you should have time to finish that new engine
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riverside66
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 6:23 am Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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+1 for the flannel baywindow shorts
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| If you can figure out how to get started in first, after that all you have to do is rev-match. No clutch needed for that. |
Save all that wear and tear on the release bearing, too.
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Randy in Maine
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:18 am Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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| Ouch!! |
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danfromsyr
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:43 am Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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the clutch in my 71 is remarkably easy to push for being mechanical..
I'm sure I could operate it with a crutch.. but I guess that would all depend on type of traffic..
not like you need another new accident to add insult to injury.
I used to have my girl do the shifting while my right arm was otherwise occupied.. 
many women are good operating a stick with their left hand..
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airschooled
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:49 pm Post subject: Re: Anybody put an automatic into an early bay? |
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Xevin, I just got a chance to check out those videos. Frankly I can’t believe that my insurance covered what it already has. But I got the cheapest crutches made, so I doubt they’ll spring for something like that.
Now, this afternoon I’m mounting a bottle opener and beer cozy onto the left crutch. After that, I’m looking for a way to use my clutch pedal with my left. Colin felt the pedal and made a face like he thought the pressure plate was broken it’s so damn soft. Brian described it as “stepping on a sponge.” So I shouldn’t have the hardest time. We have a Horrible Freight buzz-box welder and I would like to source a spare pedal piece to weld a receiver on. Anybody have one sitting around they could lend me? I’ll send it back in January after grinding off my fabrication tabs 
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