Popping the Clutch

I owe a huge thanks to the guys who helped me today! It was totally crazy....

There I was at a 5-star fancy shmancy hotel. I needed to valet my vehicle of choice since regular parking is pretty hard to come by. As I was walking away, I heard my vehicle going 'clickclickclickclick.' Rats, the battery was dead.

My first thought was to somehow quick get a replacement battery via insurance covered road-side assistance. Being in the region where I am, you can well imagine how that plan turned out.

In the mean time, you can probably imagine the chaos caused by my rather dirty low cost-ish vehicle of choice blocking the valet area of a fancy shmancy hotel.

Finally (I was bit more stressed and tired than normal), one of the valets and I came to the same idea: it's a clutch. Pop the clutch. Duh.... We just had to move a couple of smallish tour buses, a golf cart, and a taxi. Now, pop the clutch.

With one valet guy sitting behind the wheel, about 6 more pushing, and I pushing (much to the surprise and dismay of the gentlemen pushing my vehicle of choice) to get it moving fast enough, it worked. We popped the clutch, and the engine roared to life. Yippeee!!!!!

And again, for this whole adventure, the Husband is in another country. Why does he keep missing all this fun? That's ok. I'm using his car. Oh yeah.....

Peace.

FYI: Here's some links that talk about this technique....
http://www.ehow.com/how_7414_push-start-car.html# (not sure if this link will work)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090807061234AAXVCuB