I ran into a guy who's grandpa had an advanced design GMC 4 spd and a potato
farm...he said at harvest time they would put the truck in 1st and clip a
clothes pin behind the hand throttle. The truck would drive itself in between
the mounds of pototes at 2 or 3 mph while the family harvested.
-cale
owensboro ky
To: old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com
From: lowerche...@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:01:49 +0000
Subject: [old-chevy-truck] Re: NEW IN CRATE: 1948 -1954 GM Synchromesh
Transmission
Seeing as top end in 1'st gear is about 5 MPH, you want to be stopped
when you shift into it anyways. This gear is mainly for pulling stumps,
climbing steep hills, starting a very heavy load, and chugging along at idle on
a back road with a bird hunter sitting on the hood (I know that's illegal).
Second gear is about equal to first on a 3 speed.
Sometimes at a dead stop, going into this gear the teeth hang up on each other
and you have to let the cutch out just a little to spin the drive gears a
little. Trick is to be subtle about it and not grind off a pound of teeth.
Bruce K
Mt. Iron, MN
--- In old-chevy-truck@yahoogroups.com, "Hanlon, Bill" <bill.han...@...> wrote:
>
> Doesn't mean anything at a dead stop. Trying to engage 1st gear while the
> truck is moving will result in grinding of gears unless the driver has
> graduated Nate's Double-Clutching Academy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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