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----- Snip... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Ole Chevy and GMC trucks rule! To unsubscribe, send an email (with no subject, no body, just the email), to: old-chevy-truck-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.comyahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/old-chevy-truck/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/old-chevy-truck/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: old-chevy-truck-dig...@yahoogroups.com old-chevy-truck-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: old-chevy-truck-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/