Thread: Hand Cranking
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Old 06-20-2012, 12:04 AM   #16
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Default Re: Hand Cranking

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Originally Posted by Milton View Post
When I was 15, I weighed in at a whopping seventy pounds, that is exactly the way I would do it. Set the crank at 1:00, face the drivers side and get on the bumper with my left foot on the crank then put my weight on the crank. It only kicked back once and I never used that method again, ever.
My dad's had his car for longer than I've been alive (and I'm 33) and I know that it's only been hand cranked one time since he's had it just to say it was done. I've heard horror stories of trying to hand crank a car. People getting their hands broken and all kinds of bad stuff!
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