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On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 03:21, Daniel Baum wrote: > Hi all, > > > Today, for the first time, I had to reverse up a hill. the car was not > happy about it. A first it hardly wanted to go, and then when I gave it > more gas, it started juddering. On the second attempt it went OK. > > Remember my car has dual carbs + AT. > > Any ideas what this could be? > > Reverse gear an our AT's is the same gear ratio as 2nd. They always have trouble backing up steep inclines. That has always been a week point on our transmissions. I have always tried to take this into consideration when parking my T-3 automatics. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org