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Grit_dog
Mar 30, 2022Navigator III
MFL wrote:
JR wrote: "Sounds like driver issue to me."
Think you're right! Fish probably didn't know, that you needed to let the clutch all the way out?? Had a Great Uncle with same issue. He'd rev the engine so hard while barely letting the clutch out, (he could not hear) that it was said the fan was pulling the car forward.
Jerry
Yeah......no.
Even with a deeper first gear than an auto, or comparing 5 speed trucks with a 4.9 or 5.0, the 4.9 was a clutch eatin mofo if you had to use it to start a load up a hill.
I smoked the original clutch in that 4.9 5 speed in pretty short order and the next one would still have to get slipped more than it should to get enough rpms out of the 4.9 to pull a trailer up a hill from a dig.
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