Shifting into first after idling in neutral
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Re: Shifting into first after idling in neutral
who cares. for all of you who want to overanalyze stuff, all the synchro has to do is slow down the clutch disk and the input shaft. woopty do big deal.
floor clutch, put it in 1st and go. dont sit around and bullshit around waiting for the shafts to stop spinning, or your gonna get rearended
floor clutch, put it in 1st and go. dont sit around and bullshit around waiting for the shafts to stop spinning, or your gonna get rearended
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Re: Shifting into first after idling in neutral
Or you could watch the opposing traffic light so you know when the light's about to change and can do your waiting while the light's still red...
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Re: Shifting into first after idling in neutral
Let me know what you find. There is another way to do this:WA1DH wrote:Yeah, but, that slight grinding of the teeth is slowing the shaft down faster than it would spin down on its own. So, that could be off a few fractions of a secondRope-Pusher wrote: Apply the park brake.
Place shifter in Neutral
Start engine and let it idle with foot off the clutch.
VERY SLOWLY move shifter toward reverse gear position. Stop when you just start to hear the teeth begin to gnash.
Holding the shift lever in that position, briskly disengage the clutch. Start counting 1-Pizza, 2-Pizza as soon as the clutch pedal hits the floor and continue until the gear gnashing noise stops.
Sounds like a good test though. I'll try it out tonight - I'm curious to see how long it takes.
Let it idle in Neutral with the clutch engaged.
Quickly stab the clutch pedal to the floor and count up to 5 pizzas and then quickly shift into reverse. If it grinds, it was still spinning. Do it again and count to a greater number of pizzas. If 5 pizzas produced no grinding, try 4 or 3 pizzas. Still no grind? Try 2 pizzas, or something just less than 2 pizzas (no, not 1-Pizza & a calzone. More like 1-pizza, 2-P...). This alternate method won't work with synchronized reverse.
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It's far too early in the morning for me to be hungry for pizza.
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If they whack me for not moving fast enough they had better have insurance. FWIW, I stomp the clutch down a few seconds before I'm ready to shift and start rolling anyway. If I need to move faster I just shift it more gently.permabanned wrote: floor clutch, put it in 1st and go. dont sit around and bullshit around waiting for the shafts to stop spinning, or your gonna get rearended
Not overanalyzing stuff, just learning about how things work. This is the 'technical issues' area after all.
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i got lost. what are we doing with our pizzas? should we be eating them, not counting them? but w/e
no, seriously, what are you guys trying to do???? *puzzled*
no, seriously, what are you guys trying to do???? *puzzled*
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Understand the technical workings of our gearboxeswannabe wrote: no, seriously, what are you guys trying to do???? *puzzled*
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...and order some pizza boxes.WA1DH wrote:Understand the technical workings of our gearboxes
Pizza from a local pizza joint would be great right now.
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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PFMWA1DH wrote:Understand the technical workings of our gearboxes
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pfm?watkins wrote:PFMWA1DH wrote:Understand the technical workings of our gearboxes
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so to understand how ur gear box works you need pizza?WA1DH wrote:Understand the technical workings of our gearboxes
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Pizza the f**k ing Manualwannabe wrote:pfm?watkins wrote:PFMWA1DH wrote:Understand the technical workings of our gearboxes
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Pure Freakin Magicwannabe wrote:pfm?watkins wrote:PFMWA1DH wrote:Understand the technical workings of our gearboxes
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Aww, I was wrong?watkins wrote:Pure Freakin Magic
Dammit.
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No. It's all about pizza.RITmusic2k wrote:Aww, I was wrong?
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD