[DeTomaso] Shifting Problem, Too Funny

[Ken Green]

I can remember going back and forth between English and Japanese bikes, shift patterns opposite and shifter and brake on opposite sides.  You can get some real surprises when you shift the wrong way, or try to shift the brake.
 
Ken

--- On Fri, 4/15/11, John Taphorn <jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com> wrote:


From: John Taphorn <jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Shifting Problem, Too Funny
To: "Dennis Yogi" <dhyogi at gmail.com>, "Detomaso Archives" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Date: Friday, April 15, 2011, 6:35 PM


Dennis

Good one.  I wrestle with that as well.  My plebian Honda's shift gate is 
opposite the Pantera.  Confuses me as well when driving the P car. 
Although, I am a little worried about you; most folks would eventually look 
at the shift gate before grabbing their wrenches.

JT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Yogi" <dhyogi at gmail.com>
To: "Detomaso Archives" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:11 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Shifting Problem, Too Funny


> Well after a long winter storage (just was busy during the past winter
> season to drive it, although we did have some 20 degree weather days) I
> pulled the cover off of the 5-0 Pushbutton and decided to start and take 
> her
> out for a drive and circulate the fluids.  She started up fine but when I
> went to back out of the driveway I found that I had no reverse gear. 
> Damn,
> leave her sitting and the shifter adjustment must have gone off tune.
> Having done the adjustment routine so many time that I have it memorized, 
> I
> got out the wrenches and went to work.  After several attempts I still
> couldn't get reverse gear working.  Frustrated I took a break and just sat
> in the car thinking of my next move.  Then looking at the shift plate I
> realized . . . Having been driving my newly acquired Toyota T100 pickup
> during the winter months I had gotten used to it's shift pattern and was
> putting the Pantera in 5th gear instead of reverse!  Duh!  Funny thing is
> that when I first got the truck, I kept starting off in 2nd gear (1st gear
> on the Pantera) and always stumbled the take offs.  I guess the moral of 
> the
> story is to drive your toys or you'll forget how!
>
>
> Aloha from Las Vegas,
>
> Dennis
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