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07-29-2022, 04:49 PM | #15 |
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Why shift into 3rd when you’re at the top of second gear with I intention to accelerate any further? I very frequently blast through 1st and 2nd only to slot it into 5th to cruise around 55mph.
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Unless you pause for a long time in neutral, you're wearing the piss out of that fifth gear balk ring. Even if you don't engage the clutch, row through the gears.
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So it was important to use every gear to keep them lubricated properly
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Launch control and flat foot shifting. Two of the worse "features" ever conceived.
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This went places I had not expected. My shifting days are nearly over, as I am trading the BRZ, mint and 14,500 km on the cutie, for a Solterra in the next little while.
My fuel bill will go from $160 a month to about $20 a month and at this stage in my life an SUV is more useful. As well I will sell my Suzuki Samurai as the Solterra will be just fine for 90% of my logging road wandering. |
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Don’t think there is any real mechanical reason to use them all but in my case is more just habit. Most of my old cars (50s and early 60s) that I drove as DDs right into the 90s were all 3 speeds. Of course when you only have 3 gears you use them all all the time. Some of the military stuff I drove for years didn’t even have synchros so again you used every gear no matter what. Once I got cars with 4, 5 and 6 gears my old habits just remained. As Ultra said earlier I may not actually stay in each gear but at least row trough them all every single time. Don’t think I have ever intentionally skipped a gear no matter how many they have.
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Yeah, no sychros on a truck either. My first truck was a Ford with a 5 and 4 transmission set up. Now after finally getting it under control, you learned a clutch was not something you actually needed a lot of the time. For shifting down it was a good idea but the rest were mostly un-clutched. As we have square cut gears if you get it wrong its a struggle. Get it right they just drop in. Now skip shifting that setup was a thing I did a lot, once I could hit the gears consistently. |
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I've always referred to those baulk rings as synchro rings, thanks for showing me the correct term! |
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Just have a spare trans on hand and hammer away.
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Mechanical sympathy FTW. I get exactly what you describe. Motor on, my dude!
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They're so hard to swap, tho.
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lol
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