"Tim" <jmeth111@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Does continual ****fting from drive to neutral and back cause any
long-term
> damage?
> What I mean is continually ****fting into neutral when approaching stop
> signs and red lights?
When I used to commute over back country roads (hills, turns, turns at the
top or bottom of hills, etc.) in winter (snow, ice, hardpack, freezing
rain,
black ice, etc.) in an old rear wheel drive barge, I frequently put it
into
neutral before trying to brake so that the rear (drive) wheels would brake
the same as the fronts. (Left in drive, the fronts would tend to lock up
first on slippery surfaces since they don't have the engine trying to keep
them moving.) It may have helped (I never slid much at all), but after a
couple of years of that I needed a new transmission. Only thing I can
think
of is wearing out the clutches and actuators by going into & out of drive
so
much...
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