RE: Downshifting for Normal Driving

[Eric Renneisen <renneie@hlthsrc.com>]

For those who aren't yet tired of this ( I'm getting pretty close, folks!)...
Two items:
1) Engine braking: The owner's manual for my old '85 urabuS GL Wagon (at 
least it was 4WD) actually _recommended_ using engine braking to save the 
brakes!  Of course, this was a matter of convenience, because those brakes 
would only last about a month and that HO4 could handle a pretty good beating.
The clutch, however, I'm not so sure about.
2) I seem to recall that there is some law here in Tennessee against operating 
a motor vehicle in neutral without the clutch depressed.  Now, I have no 
shortage of faulty synapses, mind you, so I could be wrong.  However, I have 
_never_ violated the law.
;^) How do you suppose I got those faulty synapses? ;^)

Still mastering the art of double-clutching, 
"Honestly, occifer, I only do it down in Georgia!"
Eric Renneisen
'90 CQ 20V  -  my 'running-iron'  :^)
Chattanooga, TN