Transmission gear gringing

[JoeCB]

You mentioned "double clutching" , I have been thinking about this for a while. My 31 Coupe wants too grind badly before the trans oil (600W - 1500) warms up. After driving a mile or so, no problems, shifts very smoothly. To minimize the "cold" grind issue, I find that double clutching does the trick. Now about double clutching that many may not realize. The technique is different when shifting UP as opposed to DOWN SHIFTING. When UP shifting, cycle the clutch once as the shifter goes thru neutral with NO acceleration of the engine. When down shifting one must "blip" the engine speed to match up the gears. Blipping the engine during UP shifting only exacerbates the gear speed mis-match. Try it , you will like it !
Joe B

 

[Shiloh]

Just want to say thank you for responding as to what the problem was. So many times folks ask questions and a lot of advice goes out but many times folks don’t comeback and tell us what the resolve was. Now that you’ve done that we all know another thing to check if we run across the same problem one day!

 

[Phil Brown]

Blipping the engine during UP shifting only exacerbates the gear speed mis-match.

Same as too high of an idle

 

[Model "A" Fords]

When UP shifting, cycle the clutch once as the shifter goes thru neutral with NO acceleration of the engine. When down shifting one must "blip" the engine speed to match up the gears. Joe B

Never thought how it actually worked but must have learned this watching dad drive the phaeton 60 years ago. Thanks for the memories Joe!