Re: Stuck in the driveway

[Greg Merritt <gregm@umich.edu>]

At 1:14 PM -0800 1/2/97, Larry Edson wrote:
>When I let out the clutch it felt like the front end was tied to the
>pavement.  In reverse the rear end humped up and in first the rear end
>hunkered down but the car wouldn't move even though the engine was applying
>torque to the wheels. So I took public transit anyway.
>
>Any ideas where I should look first?

	I'm 99.7% certain that it's a stuck parking brake.  It will make a
big clang! when you break 'em free.  My solution for this is to rev it up,
take a couple of months' life off of the clutch, and pop 'em.  It's not
pretty.  It happens here when it's wet/cold/rusty out.  Apparently the
problem can sometimes be eliminated by fresh, lubed parking brake cables.

Good luck,
-Greg
'71 squareback
'63 Beetle