Oh no! Not "real Jeepers"! ;^)

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"L.W. ("ßill") Hughes III" > wrote in
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> Real Jeepers with sticks, double clutch the transfer
> neutral
> position, just like the Real truckers, shift their
> dual-stick Brownie
> auxiliary transmissions.
> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> http://www.billhughes.com/
>
> Jeff Strickland wrote:
>>
>> The reason you don't want to stop is because the gears
>> grind.
>>
>> The gears grind because there are no synch rings, and
>> because there are no
>> synch rings AND the gears are relatively fat, they can
>> strike on edge if
>> they are not moving. You won't hurt anything if you shift
>> into LO while at a
>> standing stop, but if the gears strike each other on edge
>> and the lever
>> won't physically move into position. The recovery from
>> this is to let the
>> clutch out partially while moving the lever at the same
>> time, the gears will
>> move out of each other's way, and the lever will slip
>> into position. I have
>> found that I need to do this while the transmission is in
>> gear, not Neutral.
>> If you are moving when you shift into LO, then the gears
>> will also slip into
>> position, but they will grind first.