shifting a series IIa

[LaneRover]

Why don't you double clutch? It is a straight cut 1st and 2nd gear?

Personally it is because I have never had to. I find waiting a moment does the same thing. It may not do the exact same thing but I seem to get the exact same result.

[Alaskan Rover]

Personally it is because I have never had to. I find waiting a moment does the same thing. It may not do the exact same thing but I seem to get the exact same result.

Same here. I just give it an extra moment between 1st and 2nd while the clutch pedal is depressed...it's like sorta finaggling the gears...wishing them into place, as it were. I've seldom ground the gears doing it this way.

Granted, it DOES take longer. People behind me seem to always be in a hurry, but as anybody knows...land-rovers travel at their own damn pace and must never be rushed...especially not by some nervous cell-phone gabbing dolt behind me in a Lexus.

[futurafalcon]

The only time I use first is when I'm deep in the woods going up or down a steep hill.

Driving in town I don't use first and always start off in second.

If I want to see what it's like to start off in first I just have to remember how short it is before I shift to second.

Down shifting from third to second? I'd like to learn.

[JimCT]

double clutching

This confuses me, they were designed to be double clutched in 1st and 2nd, why not just do it?

[stomper]

land-rovers travel at their own damn pace and must never be rushed...especially not by some nervous cell-phone gabbing dolt behind me in a Lexus.[/QUOTE]

Easy there tiger! I own a '66 Land Rover AND a Lexus GX470.

[LaneRover]

This confuses me, they were designed to be double clutched in 1st and 2nd, why not just do it?

But if you don't have to then why do it? If I was grinding the gears all the time I would worry about it. But I don't. Sometimes I don't even use the clutch when shifting.