Thread: Hey look you can change range on the fly....

This sort of thing is typical where :-

1. The driver does not own the vehicle
2. The driver does not stay with the same vehicle
3. There is another replacement either available or likely to be.
4. Driving is not the driver's main job, but is incidental to their job

Not specific to the army, but common in industry - speaking with the experience of 45 years in the exploration industry!

John

Originally Posted by rick130

all the bloody time, since I learnt to drive, oh, over 25 years ago on I don't know how many different types of gearboxes and t/cases.

It's just a bloody dog engagement non synchro gear for gods sake. If you match the revs, no problems.
As duff said Land Rover even say you can do it in the manual.

True. Same system as used in Fuller Road Ranger and Spicer heavy truck gearboxes and they can be shifted single clutch, double clutch, or no clutch, although fleet owners frown on the latter.

With regard to comments in this thread re military intelligence,and without casting aspersions on current members of our lightly armed defence forces, I pass on the following bon mot. During the Vietnam unpleasentness, I had friends and acquaintances who were conscripts. They used the term "reg" as in regular soldier to indicate "dumb" or "stupid" on the logic that a person of normal intelligence would not volunteer to be part of such a fubarred organisation.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

With regard to comments in this thread re military intelligence,and without casting aspersions on current members of our lightly armed defence forces, I pass on the following bon mot. During the Vietnam unpleasentness, I had friends and acquaintances who were conscripts. They used the term "reg" as in regular soldier to indicate "dumb" or "stupid" on the logic that a person of normal intelligence would not volunteer to be part of such a fubarred organisation.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

its kinda the reverse of winning lottery really...

you only need to pick all the numbers once..

with the tcase..

you only need to get it wrong once.


how many times do you shift on the fly?

mate, unfortunately you can only lead a horse to water....

Originally Posted by EchiDna

mate, unfortunately you can only lead a horse to water....

You thouroughly enjoy little digs at me don't you?

Originally Posted by rick130

all the bloody time, since I learnt to drive, oh, over 25 years ago on I don't know how many different types of gearboxes and t/cases.

It's just a bloody dog engagement non synchro gear for gods sake. If you match the revs, no problems.
As duff said Land Rover even say you can do it in the manual.

Maybe we should run a poll on this on who shifts on the fly , and who has damaged a t/c during this so called reverse lottery
It would be interesting to see how many people do shift on the fly with a manual trans compared to who doesnt