Floating Gears Vs Double Clutching
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Chris A,
Where do you call home? I was born in Chehalis, graduated HS in Toledo. Nice to see a few more folks in the resent past from the PNW....
Ernie
Chris A,
Where do you call home? I was born in Chehalis, graduated HS in Toledo. Nice to see a few more folks in the resent past from the PNW....
Ernie
Tenino
Heck, you guys were close. I grew up in Yelm. Spent my HS weekends working the Centralia livestock auction.
That's cool guys. I know where Tenino & Yelm are. When I was growing up we had friends that lived out that way. I grew up on a dairy farm's all through the western part of the state. Finally ending up in Toledo.
Ernie
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That's cool guys. I know where Tenino & Yelm are. When I was growing up we had friends that lived out that way. I grew up on a dairy farm's all through the western part of the state. Finally ending up in Toledo.
Ernie
The world is small. A friend of mine's parents owned Creamery Transport that picked up the milk from the farms in the area.
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The mechanics in our shop said they'd hurt me if they caught me using the clutch! I guess they don't like replacing them :)
That's cool guys. I know where Tenino & Yelm are. When I was growing up we had friends that lived out that way. I grew up on a dairy farm's all through the western part of the state. Finally ending up in Toledo.
Ernie
The world is small. A friend of mine's parents owned Creamery Transport that picked up the milk from the farms in the area.
When I went into the military out of HS, we were shipping our milk to Darigold in Chehalis. They had their own trucks (at least back then they did). That was back in the early 70's (boy am I dating myself now). Before we shipped to Darigold, we shipped to Fred Meyer's (that was when we had nothing but Jersey cows). When we moved to the other side of town, that was when we switched to a mix of Jersey & Holstein cows and started shipping to Darigold.
Ernie
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I agree, double clutching is no different than slip-shifting as long as it is DONE CORRECTLY. When I started driving, foolishly perhaps, I never double clutched. Just couldn't seem to get it down. However, when I did my road test, the instructor told me, "Whoever taught you how to slip shift did a great job." It would seem I was lucky for that. I drove, and still drive, by slip shifting and have never had any issues. The key either way, is not to jamb it into gear. match road speed, rpm and gear speed and youll be fine either way. Oh, and as a final note, I used to rebuild heavy duty transmissions for a small company. never failed to amaze me how many "pro drivers" came in with burned up clutch brakes and sheared teeth.
Double Clutch:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.
Double Clutching:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.
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The only place I use the clutch is at a stop sign, and that's only if I can't do a calif stop.