Manual Transmission
Question:
Got a truck that I am selling and I have to laugh at the people who scorn at the site of a manual transmission. Several have said, "I would buy it, but its not a auto." I tell them that if I wanted to have a auto, I could have had one in two days, but I special ordered this one and it took 10 wks. They couldn’t believe anyone would want a manual. This also included the dealer who sold it to me. I’ve been driving manual transmission vehicles for years, but I guess, this is a idea that is becoming ancient. Manual transmissions for me, give me more control over the vehicle and the conditions that it is driven on. Anyway, just a thought.
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I noticed the high school kids who stop and admire the vehicle while it’s parked in the driveway with a 4sale sign on it. They all walk away yelling to their cohorts, it’s a manual. I guess they haven’t figured out how to drive one, and probobly never will. To bad, because they are definitely missing a different aspect of driving. I guess that our society likes the automatic, sort of like the pushbutton auto that was on a friends Dodge Valiant in 1966. I still liked the 3 on the column, but that definitely wouldn’t cut the mustard today.
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Hi , I agree with you wholeheartedly! I’ve got a 74 Chevy with an auto that I’m converting to a manual for the same reasons you said. Automatics are to finicky for me , Ya have to baby them to much! I have a 700R4 in my 86 K5 that I hate . It shifts to soon out of first and is in OD before I’m going 35MPH . It sucks!
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All of your transmission woes appear to be focused around the<early> 700R4, which with today’s rebuilding technologies continues to remain unserviceable. We used to call them "terminally confused" as they shifted randomly at the least correct moment. The later models proved to hold up and a local transmission shop has been performing some impressive performance rebuilds with the later castings. We have a ‘78 K5 Blazer 427 and TH350 that just plows parking lots and driveways. We service the transmission each fall, changing the fluid and filter and it has never skipped a beat. There’s a fair amount of torque in front of it, and an 8′ Fisher isn’t easy to move with the dumps we have been getting this season. I’ve plowed with a standard, that’s a pain. Don’t get me wrong I like standards (I have four) and they can make a truck very driveable, such as the T-5 in our ‘52 GMC. With a 3.90 rear you still have a creeper 1st gear, but the 228 only GMC trucks is probably one of the finest ever built. Change its fluid every 30k as the Dexron will burn, and it will provide years of trouble-free service. David
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >All of your transmission woes appear to be focused around the<early> >700R4, which with today’s rebuilding technologies continues to remain >unserviceable. We used to call them "terminally confused" as they >shifted randomly at the least correct moment. The later models proved >to hold up and a local transmission shop has been performing some >impressive performance rebuilds with the later castings. >We have a ‘78 K5 Blazer 427 and TH350 that just plows parking lots and >driveways. We service the transmission each fall, changing the fluid >and filter and it has never skipped a beat. There’s a fair amount of >torque in front of it, and an 8′ Fisher isn’t easy to move with the >dumps we have been getting this season. I’ve plowed with a standard, >that’s a pain. Don’t get me wrong I like standards (I have four) and >they can make a truck very driveable, such as the T-5 in our ‘52 GMC. >With a 3.90 rear you still have a creeper 1st gear, but the 228 only >GMC trucks is probably one of the finest ever built. Change its fluid >every 30k as the Dexron will burn, and it will provide years of >trouble-free service. >David
I have a 72 blazer with a four speed with granny. You cant stop it in the mud.
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