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Post by toshtego on Apr 21, 2021 18:56:38 GMT -5
Does anyone else double clutch their gear shifting? Does anyone know what I am referring to?
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Post by sparks on Apr 21, 2021 19:09:29 GMT -5
Used to always do it with work trucks, not with a smaller vehicle like a car. I was always taught it was less stress on the gears to double-clutch
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Post by toshtego on Apr 21, 2021 19:27:40 GMT -5
I do it consistently on my Ford PSD 7.3 liter with the German Six speed tranny. I have Dual Mass Flywheel and do not know if that helps or hurts.
The shifts seem to be smoother with the double clutch. I am in no hurry and could care less about the traffic behind me, so slower might stretch out the life of the tranny?
I certainly do it with my 1942 1 1/2 ton Chevrolet truck and its square cut gears non-synchro tranny.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Apr 21, 2021 19:37:54 GMT -5
Use to do it with my modified VW engine and porshe tranny in my Gia.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 21, 2021 20:08:14 GMT -5
Use to do it with my modified VW engine and porshe tranny in my Gia. Bet you wish you still had that one, eh? |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Apr 21, 2021 20:12:22 GMT -5
Use to do it with my modified VW engine and porshe tranny in my Gia. Bet you wish you still had that one, eh? Got stopped in Va. once doing close to 95mph...state trooper said his radar must be busted as a VW can't go that fast...glad he didn't ask to look under the rear hatch. I had disc brakes and modified front and rear suspension. |
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Post by urbino on Apr 21, 2021 21:12:31 GMT -5
Love the Ghia. I had a fantasy for a few years that I'd get an early one, before the front vents got bigger, and fix it up. Read up on it all. A fantasy was all it was, though.
Also great: their ad that showed it bouncing off a paper billboard.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 22, 2021 17:31:52 GMT -5
Bet you wish you still had that one, eh? Got stopped in Va. once doing close to 95mph...state trooper said his radar must be busted as a VW can't go that fast...glad he didn't ask to look under the rear hatch. I had disc brakes and modified front and rear suspension. THat happened to me driving a Ford Pinto Station wagon in 1978. It had a high performance V-6. The CHP Officer could not believe my speed so he dropped it 15 MPH to 80 MPH. |
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Post by trailboss on Apr 22, 2021 17:40:47 GMT -5
Years ago, I had a supervisor that rode with me from a looong run down the coast from Fremont Ca. to Big Sur and on to ragged point and back. www.google.com/maps/place/Big+Sur,+CA/@37.0799435,-121.5545428,10z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x808de8a7780e4d77:0x37e8d859caefac61!8m2!3d36.2704233!4d-121.8080556 It was a marathon run, and halfway through the day, he got antsy that I wasn't speeding to get back. Even though it was in conflict with union rules I let him drive. He double clutched every gear as he drove very aggressively, he looked like a seat belted grasshopper on speed. I drove the truck, floating the gears and never missed a beat. There are times that I needed to double clutch from necessity, but never as a regular practice... (Speaking about 1972 Fuller Roadrangers forward)A long story from that trip. The truck would not exceed 35 mph once we got back to Salinas. I suggested that we call Doc's towing which was across the higway from us. being in management and a horses butt, he insisted on calling a "preferred vendor" That was a towing outfit in Oakland that had to drive the entire length of the bay area in rush hour to rescue us. I got 25 hours in that day, all double time.  My supervisor was salary, and his newfangled cellphone that carried the battery in the bag died on him on a night he was suppose to get "lucky" with a hot date. |
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Post by instymp on Apr 22, 2021 17:56:16 GMT -5
Know what double clutching is but never did it in many moons, don't need to.
55 years ago did it ocassionly.
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Post by simnettpratt on Apr 22, 2021 19:56:17 GMT -5
Used to double clutch my 88 CRX, but only because I never learned to heel and toe. For some reason, never bothered in the Miata. Can't learn with my crappy PC racing wheel, because it only has two pedals and I have to use the nasty paddle shifties. Still mad at Porsche for inventing the Tiptronic and ruining Ferraris and Lamborghinis.
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Post by jay on Apr 22, 2021 23:43:31 GMT -5
I see double clutching from time to time with the motorcycle...and there was this one time in a deuce and a half. All the sergeant said was "Gee, LT, where did you learn to do that?"
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