Drove delivery vans for a while. Got to learn first hand to ALWAYS set
the parking brake, no matter hill or flat. Jumped out to grab a
package, and threw it into park, and set brake. Slight incline, chased
the truck down to the intersection. Got back to the yard and had the
thing looked at. Deferred maintenance and idiot drivers before had not
used PB, so never knew it was shot, and only used park, which ate the
pawl.
On Friday, October 7, 2005, at 06:10 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:
On 7-Oct-05, at 3:41 PM, Marshall Booth wrote:
The parking pawl must NEVER be used instead of the parking brake.
To use
the parking pawl alone risks it failing and repair of a broken pawl is
expensive.
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Clay
Seattle Bioburner
1972 220D - Gump
1995 E300D - Cleo
1987 300SDL - POS - DOA
The FSM would drive a Diesel Benz
