"Louis M. Brown" <phyphor@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 13:19:04 -0600, "Ray O"
> <rokigawa@tristarassociatesDOT.com> wrote:
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>>"Hachiroku" <Trueno@ae86.GTS> wrote in message
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>>> "Al Bundy" <MSfortune@mcpmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:1133446972.011490.285020@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
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>>>> If you didn't feel anything there is probably no consequence to it. He
>>>> may have moved the lever so fast that it never even tried to go to
>>>> reverse. And if it did, apparently you were rolling fast enough that
>>>> the transmission locked it out of reverse. Next time you use your
>>>> friend's car, feather the clutch a bit.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Um, what're ya sayin' Ray? payback is a bitch?[/color]
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>>I'm not the one who posted that, but I like the idea! Another possibility
>>is to demonstrate how to shift a manual transmission without the clutch.[/color]
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> It can be done, if you match the revs....... but why do that? The
> more RPMS when you attempt a clutchless shift, the better, right?
>
> <e,EG>
>
> -LMB
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I think payback should be roughly equal. You can shift a manual
transmission without using the clutch but many people do not know that so
you can scare the taillights out of them without actually doing any harm,
just like they did when they shifted your transmission to reverse.
Feathering the clutch would actually do more damage than a clutchless shift.
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Ray O
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