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Damn the transmission talk, blowed 5th gear out in a automatic hauling hay. Getting a new Suncoast put in with 24% larger 5th gear, bands - clutches. Got good service out of the original transmission, 265k miles.

You could not give me a manual for my needs hence the swapping of my 5 speed Tremec for a 4 speed AOD. My previous Boxster was a 6 speed manual, the current one is a 7 speed PDK that absolutely knows what you are doing or even might have in mind. Just brilliant.

My neighbor farms all over the county and does ALOT of driving

He bought the first Dodge 3/4 w/Cummins and 5 spd in the county. About 1/3 through it's lifespan, the odometer broke at 469K!
His son is a certified Cummins mechanic....and a very good one.
He kept "Earl"* running! The frame had been welded together 4 tines. The only thing holding the bed to the chassis was the hydraulic hay spike. The hood was kept shut with race car hood pins!
* - It developed an electrical problem. It would just die driving down the road. The driver would kick the wires under the dash until it picked back up. It got "Earl" from the Dixie Chicks song "Earl Has To Die"!
Mike told his hired hand to "turn those steers!"! Chuck took off across the pasture in Earl, hit a ditch and ripped the entire front suspension out from under the truck. Mike's best estimate was that Earl had well over a million miles.
They took the truck to Mike's shop, pulled the motor and transmission and put them in another truck. Earl died in 2015. His motor and transmission are still working!

Let me also explain that Mike has a fetish about changing oil in an engine!
He was within 30 minutes of finishing sowing a 320 acre wheat field when the "oil change hours" rolled up on his tractor.
He stopped in the middle of the field and sent his hired hand to get filter and oil.
When Mike parks a piece of equipment and says, "It's worn out.", you may as well call the junk dealer! It's a scrap heap!

My grandmother knew how to make soap and make ketchup. In 2023 that makes as much sense as a "standard" transmission.

Wow.

That's incredibly stupid.

Which is your version of par.


LOL

I say 5 more pages should suffice. Carry on

So, you mean like every unibody, the floor pan of a Porsche 911 is a structural member, and yet they’re able to fit a shifter that passes through the floor pan. But Chevy can’t, because “structural member”??

I like them. And I payed a pretty good premium to get one in this old Poncho.

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For me it was a '49 Ford F100 with a 3 spd on the floor.

I know an 80 year old lady here who drives a 50 something Nash with a 3-spd. Her late husband was a hunting buddy of mine. When they got married, back in the early 60's, they needed a car for a honeymoon and found a decent Nash. They/she have been driving nothing but Nash's every since. I don't know how many times hers has been overhauled.

Not sure if it's illegal if it fails you the test.

It certainly is illegal in a truck.

"... The clutch in my 89 jeep has 170,000 miles on it, still doing fine. I [bleep] up several clutch’s in other vehicles before a mechanic told me how to make a clutch last. ..."

My '01 Dodge 3500 has 420K! We bought it used with 13k.
To the best of my knowledge, it's the original clutch, pressure plate and throw out bearing.*

* - I expect it to go out just any day! That's a LOT of miles on those parts! 😜

Some of us just enjoy driving them, it reminds me of better days gone by. Nostalgia I guess you'd say. Driving a convertible on a twisty mountain road is more fun with a manual than any dual clutch automatic will ever be.

Besides, I can park a manual on the street in Memphis with the keys in the ignition and it'll still be there a few hours later. Try that with an automatic.

I wish my work truck was a 5 speed.

We've never found an automatic that will crawl the pasture like a standard.
We feed mostly in "Granny", 4WD, Low range.
The newer Duramax wouldn't do it, or the newer Dodge. Tranny stall will throw you off the back!
BTDT, now too damned old!

57 Chev 3/4 ton, floor shift w/granny low... starter button next to the gas pedal... no brakes... taught myself at 10 or 11 back in the 70's... love to see a todays youth deal... or most adults for that matter... lol

Oh my! That takes me back.....1974. Freshman College. We were at a party, and a dorm mate got falling down drunk. I was elected to get him home. A late 60s/ maybe early 70s model VW bug with a floor shifter.

No problem, I have been driving tractors and pickups around the farm for better than 10 years. I KNOW how to drive a standard.

Except, where's the friggen clutch?!!! My first and only experience with a chainsaw clutch in an automobile.

I miss a stick.. Last one I had was about 15+ years ago.

I drove a 10 speed in the big rig for about 970,000 miles. I was good at floating the gears.

Our former neighborhood was mountainous ranching county above 8k elevation, complete with rough roads, snow/ice/mud/etc. and some log hauls in that stuff. Of course. the ranchers all hauled loads, pulled loaded stock trailers, etc. and worked their trucks hard - mostly Dodge and Ford diesels and a Chev Duramax once in a while.

Many of those folks like automatic transmissions for the same reason most others do, but they tried never to have an autotrans in those working trucks. The autos were much less useful/flexible for the work they had to do and failed - broke - early in the lives of most those trucks. Meanwhile a clutch and 5 or 6 speed manual wold work well for 200k plus miles - and my Dodge Cummins ran up 340k before trouble - and the cause was simply release bearing wear/roughness.

Autotrans are great for most folks - but not for some.