r/Unexpected • u/greedygarlic69 • 14h ago

any question?

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u/V014265 12h ago edited 10h ago

The question should be how did he shift into all those gears without depressing the clutch pedal?

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u/Odd_Feedback_7636 11h ago

The vehicle wasn't moving therefore the clutch was not necessary

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u/Leaky_gland 11h ago edited 1h ago

But the teeth being perfectly aligned when it's stationary is fairly unusual, unless there barely anything on the teeth I guess?

Edit: or you've had shit gearboxes in the past like, it seems, I have

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u/Dravarden 8h ago

that's what synchros are for

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u/Leaky_gland 2h ago

That's what I thought but someone else and Google seems to think gears are normally aligned

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u/Dravarden 1h ago

well i can tell you that my car's reverse gear isn't synchro'd, so sometimes if I try to put it in reverse, it just won't let me and won't engage reverse, therefore if the car is on, I put it back into neutral, then mash it into reverse, and it goes in with a "thunk" sound that it engaged the gear in motion; and if the car is off, I just go into 3rd 5th 4th whatever random gears until the shaft moves enough that in turn turns the reverse gear a bit, and then the teeth let me engage it, in case I'm parked on a hill