7 thoughts on “Primer, manual trannies and I don’t mean what ya’ll think, ya perverts.”
I think that gear is supposed to be called “synchromesh”, but not understanding how design engineers think, I could be wrong. Yeah, the letters are next to each other, C, don’t give me any static on other people’s spelling. chuckling
Grog, I have had this primer for awhile and when I posted it, did not notice the misspelling! I won’t take credit or excuse for it.
Did you put suntan lotion in the gearbox, just in case?
The internal workings of the modern-day anti-theft device!
When the first and reverse cluster went south on the transmission in my pickup, my brother (who wouldn’t hesitate about anything mechanical) told me he would help me with the repair. At the time, construction work wasn’t paying the bills, due to weather, and parts were all I could afford. It took one evening after work to pull it apart, and after buying the parts, another evening to finish. I replaced the clutch, pressure plate, and pilot bearing during the process.
I learned very much. Mostly, I learned transmission work is best left to those with lifts, jacks, knowledge and experience.
true that ! and never, ever trust your brother with the jack.
ended up with a few broken ribs because of his shit.
damn that was close to 50 years ago.
he got better at it since.
he still drives a stick, me, I had to go to a damn automatic because
of my hip/lower back problems. after 30 minutes or so of shifting the gears, they started to scream at me. gave away my old 1989 4runner to a guy who was going to restore it.
never got stuck in that thing. owned that truck for close to 30 years. not only did he get the truck with a lot of upgrades to it,
but the factory shop books and a couple of hundred pounds of spare parts for it too. just got too fucked up to drive it and even work on it like I used too.
I had an 1982 Ford with a 3 speed on the column. One day driving with my dad in the truck as I shifted gears he says ‘”you have a bad countershaft bearing in second gear”, and at lunch he draws a diagram of the transmission on a napkin with an arrow pointing to the bad part.
On the same truck he said it had loose rods in the engine, that he could hear them click when I stepped on the gas.
Great advantage to have a father who grew up with the family car shop the backyard.
I think that gear is supposed to be called “synchromesh”, but not understanding how design engineers think, I could be wrong. Yeah, the letters are next to each other, C, don’t give me any static on other people’s spelling. chuckling
Grog, I have had this primer for awhile and when I posted it, did not notice the misspelling! I won’t take credit or excuse for it.
Did you put suntan lotion in the gearbox, just in case?
The internal workings of the modern-day anti-theft device!
When the first and reverse cluster went south on the transmission in my pickup, my brother (who wouldn’t hesitate about anything mechanical) told me he would help me with the repair. At the time, construction work wasn’t paying the bills, due to weather, and parts were all I could afford. It took one evening after work to pull it apart, and after buying the parts, another evening to finish. I replaced the clutch, pressure plate, and pilot bearing during the process.
I learned very much. Mostly, I learned transmission work is best left to those with lifts, jacks, knowledge and experience.
true that ! and never, ever trust your brother with the jack.
ended up with a few broken ribs because of his shit.
damn that was close to 50 years ago.
he got better at it since.
he still drives a stick, me, I had to go to a damn automatic because
of my hip/lower back problems. after 30 minutes or so of shifting the gears, they started to scream at me. gave away my old 1989 4runner to a guy who was going to restore it.
never got stuck in that thing. owned that truck for close to 30 years. not only did he get the truck with a lot of upgrades to it,
but the factory shop books and a couple of hundred pounds of spare parts for it too. just got too fucked up to drive it and even work on it like I used too.
I had an 1982 Ford with a 3 speed on the column. One day driving with my dad in the truck as I shifted gears he says ‘”you have a bad countershaft bearing in second gear”, and at lunch he draws a diagram of the transmission on a napkin with an arrow pointing to the bad part.
On the same truck he said it had loose rods in the engine, that he could hear them click when I stepped on the gas.
Great advantage to have a father who grew up with the family car shop the backyard.