13 thoughts on “Johno and The Jannie, is this true about the Land Rover’s shift pattern?”
I’ve never driven a Land Rover, but I have driven rigs where I can feel every squiggle on that shifter diagram, and have to half-clutch to get the gearbox to align enough to engage the next gear.
Older ones certainly feel that way. The upside is that they’ll engage fine with practice and carry on for years like that.
Thats just the regular gearbox. Don’t forget the Hi-Lo gear shift, the 4WD engage lever and the overdrive lever.
Not sure about that being the shift pattern for the Land Rover, but it certainly is for the old VW beetles.
back when air cooled bugs were my thing, i put a scat short shifter in one….it was tight and the throw was as big as this H, had a little lift lever to lock out reverse
that and a rebuilt top end with 2 barrel weber made for a fun car, not a beast like some of these 2 & 3 liter cars now, just fun
Also pretty damn close to the fucked up Hurst shifter on the 74? C10 workbody when I worked campground maint about 40 years ago.Hardcore drunk manager swore it was 4 speed…The rest of us would’ve rather drove anything else.
Does it matter because they can’t drive a stick anyway?
On old Mack trucks the T18 speed Quadruplex transmission had 3 shifters. The first shifter was a Lo-Lo, neutral, and Lo-split. The second shifter was High-split, neutral, and Direct. The third was a 5-speed with a reverse. You could not use the Lo-Split or Direct with 5th gear. Sometimes all three shifters were in play going through the gears.
Reminds me of the Roadmaster shifters we had to drive in the Air Force. International Cornbinders, IIRC.
Hated ’em.
My first 4WD was a Nissan Patrol heavy duty G60, with their copy of a Chev straight six and a 3-speed box with straight-cut angle on the first gear, and two levers to engage four-wheel drive high/low ratio. You were supposed to double de-clutch to change down to first gear while moving, but I got so I could time it and snick it in anyway. With a separate starter button from the ignition circuit and the two separate drive levers (to leave in neutral), besides the old H-pattern stick shift and truck-based transmission, no kid would look at stealing it.
They were a near bullet-proof old rig (almost literally, with heavy guage steel body panels) originally designed by Nissan for the Indian army. You couldn’t kill them, but driving to a remote hunting area cost about 30 litres an hour’s driving time at highway speeds. They were good in traversing rough ground though, by using the hand throttle on the dash, at lo-lo you could walk beside the vehicle, or stand on the driver’s running board above the exhaust silencer and reach in to steer the driver’s wheel through the window.
The windscreen wipers were primitive with a small electric motor each side at the top of the straight sheet windscreen, and you had hand and foot-operated opening panels to open for airflow while moving. That shit is fine when you’re young, but I live near the southern side of the equator, and I am an old fart now.
Drove a Land Rover back in the 70’s. I think the shit pattern was worse than the diagram. Seems like the entire car was put together using bolt diagrams that looked like that shifter pattern.
I saw a video one time of Queen Elizabeth II driving the King of Saudi Arabia around the the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Scotland in a stick shift Land Rover running up and down through the gears like a seasoned pro. Turns out she was Truck Driver in the Army in WWII.
She was a tough old bird, the bozo son now running the place can’t even run a Mattel Big Wheel without screwing it up.
I’ve never driven a Land Rover, but I have driven rigs where I can feel every squiggle on that shifter diagram, and have to half-clutch to get the gearbox to align enough to engage the next gear.
Older ones certainly feel that way. The upside is that they’ll engage fine with practice and carry on for years like that.
Thats just the regular gearbox. Don’t forget the Hi-Lo gear shift, the 4WD engage lever and the overdrive lever.
Not sure about that being the shift pattern for the Land Rover, but it certainly is for the old VW beetles.
back when air cooled bugs were my thing, i put a scat short shifter in one….it was tight and the throw was as big as this H, had a little lift lever to lock out reverse
that and a rebuilt top end with 2 barrel weber made for a fun car, not a beast like some of these 2 & 3 liter cars now, just fun
Also pretty damn close to the fucked up Hurst shifter on the 74? C10 workbody when I worked campground maint about 40 years ago.Hardcore drunk manager swore it was 4 speed…The rest of us would’ve rather drove anything else.
Does it matter because they can’t drive a stick anyway?
On old Mack trucks the T18 speed Quadruplex transmission had 3 shifters. The first shifter was a Lo-Lo, neutral, and Lo-split. The second shifter was High-split, neutral, and Direct. The third was a 5-speed with a reverse. You could not use the Lo-Split or Direct with 5th gear. Sometimes all three shifters were in play going through the gears.
Reminds me of the Roadmaster shifters we had to drive in the Air Force. International Cornbinders, IIRC.
Hated ’em.
My first 4WD was a Nissan Patrol heavy duty G60, with their copy of a Chev straight six and a 3-speed box with straight-cut angle on the first gear, and two levers to engage four-wheel drive high/low ratio. You were supposed to double de-clutch to change down to first gear while moving, but I got so I could time it and snick it in anyway. With a separate starter button from the ignition circuit and the two separate drive levers (to leave in neutral), besides the old H-pattern stick shift and truck-based transmission, no kid would look at stealing it.
They were a near bullet-proof old rig (almost literally, with heavy guage steel body panels) originally designed by Nissan for the Indian army. You couldn’t kill them, but driving to a remote hunting area cost about 30 litres an hour’s driving time at highway speeds. They were good in traversing rough ground though, by using the hand throttle on the dash, at lo-lo you could walk beside the vehicle, or stand on the driver’s running board above the exhaust silencer and reach in to steer the driver’s wheel through the window.
The windscreen wipers were primitive with a small electric motor each side at the top of the straight sheet windscreen, and you had hand and foot-operated opening panels to open for airflow while moving. That shit is fine when you’re young, but I live near the southern side of the equator, and I am an old fart now.
Drove a Land Rover back in the 70’s. I think the shit pattern was worse than the diagram. Seems like the entire car was put together using bolt diagrams that looked like that shifter pattern.
I saw a video one time of Queen Elizabeth II driving the King of Saudi Arabia around the the grounds of Balmoral Castle in Scotland in a stick shift Land Rover running up and down through the gears like a seasoned pro. Turns out she was Truck Driver in the Army in WWII.
She was a tough old bird, the bozo son now running the place can’t even run a Mattel Big Wheel without screwing it up.