From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 11:39:27 PST
Reaching through the wheel for anything other than to flick the turn
signal lever is something I have never done, I considered it to be too
dangerous.
I have considered (blasphemy I am sure) welding a taller shift handle
onto the hi/lo, just tall enough so I don't have to lean down to get
it.
Amnon wrote:
>
> > when in low and hit 5th, you reach through the steering wheel and reach down
> > and pull up for high while using the right hand to pull back to 4th. I
> > remember how impressed I was when I had seen this done for the 1st time.
> > Its a true art form. The reach through is to keep the steering wheel
> > from turning and leaving the road while leaning foreward to shift to high.
> > There is not much worry of this with a deuce because of it having no power
> > steering but I hear that its critical for the 5 tons.
>
> I sure hope this is a joke !!! Anybody who will reach through the steering
> wheel to do anything is asking for a broken arm in the worst way in my opinion.
> Until you get a flat tire while moving, or hit a big rock off the road you won't
> understand it.
>
> It may be the right way to do it, and an art too, but it is not safe IMHO. If
> you are driving at 20 miles per hour, reaching through the steering wheel to do
> anything, steering jerks (and I mean JERKS) and breaks your arm, you are not
> only going to go off the road, but you will hit anything in sight. It didn't
> happen to me, but I can imagine how one is going to react under such pain and
> inability to stabilize the steering wheel (if they can even think about it
> then).
>
> Again, this is my opinion. Power steering makes it easier to stabilize, and it
> will probably not jerk much.
>
> Besides, synchromesh or not, you will never put it in first unless you are
> stopped, right?
>
> Shalom Ya'll
> Amnon Nissan
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