From: Bjorn Brandstedt (super_deuce@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 14:47:59 PDT
Think of double clutching as shifting twice, first shift into neutral,
release clutch and rev the engine to where it needs to be for first gear
then shift into first and release clutch./Bjorn
>From: "Mark J. Blair" <ke6myk_mvlist@sbcglobal.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] M35 DNR Fire (more)
>Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:50:13 -0700
>
>jalberhasky@juno.com wrote:
>>Yes, you are right but in this day and age most people don't know how to
>>double clutch or even know what it is. Most would just clash the gears.
>
>Yeah, I agree with you on that, aside from commercial truck drivers.
>
>When I went to truck-driving school a couple years ago, double-clutching
>was the first thing they taught us. The International tractors owned by the
>school had Eaton-Fuller 10-speed trannys with no synchros. They told us
>that the DMV testers expected us to double-clutch all of our shifts; for
>whatever reason, they didn't want to see us floating the gears (not that I
>could, anyway!).
>
>> Why would one want to do a moving downshift into 1st anyway? If you are
>>coming to stop sign just wait until the thing is stopped to shift and if
>>ya need lower gearing while moving, it is much easier to just throw the
>>transfer case lever down into low range and go from there. It is
>>syncro'd. Flame on
>
>I used to downshift into first while pulling my first deuce into a very
>cramped spot in the hangar where it used to live. At first, I'd downshift
>from 2 high to 2 low, but once I learned to double-clutch I found it to be
>a lot easier to shift from 2 high to 1 high than to bend over to push the
>transfer case shifter down. Once you've learned to be able to double-clutch
>every shift on a crash-box, shifting into first on a deuce is no big deal!
>
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