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Is This Real? Starting A Car With A Dead Battery.


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I can't see how that can work ... if he has put the car in gear and started it and that wheel is turning why doesn't the other remaining drive wheel push the car off the jack ......

Not just that, what happens when you start a car that's in gear without using the clutch? It jumps and dies, it does not speed off down the road
Dose it ? I rember driving a few cars home once clutch has gone that very way
I had a car like that VW golf twice the clutch cable snapped......turn engine off put it in gear and turn the ignition and it jump starts

 

I remember changing up was easier than changing down without a clutch

I've also driven a few cars with snapped clutch cables over the years using that method.. :thumbs:
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Feck all that nonsense I just get my starting handle out,

The dif it puts the drive to the wheel with least resistance.   TC

Yea cant see why that wouldnt work. And as tiercel said about the diff is spot on. I remember a lad showing me a trick before how to charge a flat car battery. He had a diesel car. Started the car

 

 

For those questioning the fact it's only jacked on one side and running in gear:

 

 

:thumbs:

Far better explanation than mine. :thumbs:

 

TC

I know how it works as well Al, done a bodywork course that included a few mechanics modules back in the late 90s. I couldn't even begin to try explaining it though! :laugh:
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