On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, westydriver wrote: > how many with military experience in the old duece and a halfs. they > had a rather strange shift pattern with normal positions for 3rd and > 4th switched. deploy for a couple months of heavy time in one of those > get back to home station and wonder what the fff is wrong with your > transmission, not to mention almost punching my clutch pedal through > the floor on the first shift. No, but I did once drive a 1960's International Harvester 2-ton truck with an odd shift pattern, something like this if I remember right: 1 2 4 | | | -|--|--| | | | R 3 5 I embarassed myself by trying to go straight from 1st to 3rd, of course. Didn't help that it had a two-speed rear end that unbeknownst to me was in high range. _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "I think the brilliant aspect of the Bush speech last |___/ night is that it was crafted so simply that even Bush himself could understand it." -- Leeron Kopelman |
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