Real Jeepers with sticks, double clutch the transfer neutral
position, just like the Real truckers, shift their dual-stick Brownie
auxiliary transmissions.
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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.