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From: spellman@hplabsb.UUCP (Miles Spellman)
Newsgroups: net.auto.tech
Subject: pre fully synchro'd gearbox owners tip
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 18:16:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 18:16:00 1986
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories - Palo Alto, CA
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A tip for owners of pre reverse gear synchromesh autos:

After a couple of years of depressing the clutch and waiting for 5 seconds
before engaging reverse gear in my 71 saab sonett to avoid the gears
grinding I found out about the following method. If you start to engage
one of the synchro'd forward gears just enough to touch the syncrhos
this will stop the reverse gear shaft rotating and let you go into
reverse immediately saving about four seconds each time and minimizing
wear on those gears. This has been tested and works on old MG's too.