KIn eck - one could get very used to an auto transmission!
Box in, working a treat, ratios c*ck-on, cheers Tim!
A fair few bits to do, like get new props, sort the hi-lo and difflock, but it's getting there and... Working!
Instinctive stuff is very, very odd, like the left arm out, left leg down pavlovian response to wanting to move off. I also think now is a good time to look at the disc conversion :-)
On a related, but not particularly closely, angle, anybody know if the 4 speed manual from an RRC (LT75?) can be fitted to a Disco.
I've been driving a V8 Rangie all week and I've become used to being able to put the hammer down and take off like a rocket. My Disco isn't quite that good, and I know a source of a possible donor engine and box.
P.
Sounds like a good time to give it a test run down to Staffs just to be sure :-)
Just Got Morph into the rear garden today. Shifted 6 ton of soil and rubble.. Morph needed to go in the back to clear the drive a bit.. Hopefully I can crack on in September but will probably need indoor cover to paint him by then. Anyone?
Lee D
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I thought you put discs on a year ago?
Alex
Could meet you half way if you wanna give Percy a run?
Nah, that was the plan, but you know what plans are...
On or around Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:33:13 +0100, Mother enlightened us thusly:
You wait 'til you come up to a giveway line in a manual and forget to declutch...
I tend to assume the pedal layout in the 101 doesn't allow you to do left-foot braking (which, once mastered, is great on an auto) nor the classic with the auto cars with a single huge brake pedal of standing on the brake and "clutch" simultaneously with both feet...
Yeah, I like auto's.
When I had my first auto I kept trying to change into second after pulling away, took quite a while for me to stop doing it. When it used to go in for servicing I used to get given a manual and nearly always stalled it at the first junction I came to.
Once you get used to them they are fantastic though.
I was given a hire car from work recently to do a couple of long trips - a Pug 306 manual. Dropped the car back in the car park, picked up the Rangie (auto) and set off home. Got to the bridge toll, slowed down, and tried to slip it into first for a quick getaway, i.e. pushed the lever from D to R at about 10mph. Luckily, the electrickery in the autobox saw what was happening and totally ignored me. I expected a massive crunch (like when you select P before stopping, but worse, done once, never again), but - nothing. I'm not a big fan of cars that warn and nag and protect themselves from the driver, but I was grateful on this occasion. I believe that replacement ZF boxes are quite a price.
Like you, I love autos, both on and off road. (Except for Series 2s, brilliant vehicles, love them to bits, blah blah....)
I still have the scar (mental and emotional!) to prove this smarts from a
605 testdrive ...Lee D
Intersting .....an Auto outing! :-) I'll take you up on that soon. Probably Late September as it's that time of year again here and the Carbs still need sorting.....that should give you time to polish off the polishy offey bits.
Wheres Halfway? Sort of Chatsworth house type area? Mrs D may go for a day out then as the Bleeding ears would not be without reward ;-)
Lee D
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Whats wrong with Auto series 2's?
Lee D
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The first time I drove an Auto I nearly killed the poor biker tailgating me as I 'changed' down for the impending roundabout!!!!!
Seriously, the Trooper (which goes next week) has one of the best auto boxes I have ever had. It will do
41mph at 1200rpm!!!!!Its bloody superb!
Nige
You can left-foot it, but it's quite a contortion. I have the same problem with buses, the steering column is right in the way.
Alex
I've never used an auto off road as I've only ever had auto cars.
What do you do for hill descent, select first/second on the box just like a manual? I suppose on newer ones with all the electrikery you wouldn't need to do that.
On or around 18 Aug 2004 07:40:34 GMT, Simon Barr enlightened us thusly:
first low and be prepared for the fact that it goes frighteningly fast. this is, IMHO the only real downside of the auto box - the ratio is higher to start with and the TC works backwards, so to speak, I think as well. I tended to use 1L with a bit of judicious footbrake.
bloke at the PORC (RIP) was instructing us newbies in the art of descending their specially-made extra-steep slope; quoth he: "keep yer foot off the clutch". "No problem there, I haven't got one".
but you won't get as much engine braking, even in 1L. It still goes fairly slowly, but not like a manual does.
mind, on the disco, with it's sloppy transmission, pootling downslope feet-off in 2L it can go into a vile (and violent) shunting motion - some form of harmonic wossname, between the play int he ignition and the reaction of the engine and the idle-speed contorl and so on, I think. A moderate slope in this case, and fairly rough ground. doubtless on a steeper slope it'd be better.
Aren't you supposed to ease over the edge where you can still stop, and then select reverse? Headlong flight down is then controlled by the throttle.
Quite what the various ECU's would make of it these days I'm not sure! Beth
Nothin, pal, honest! Didn't mean to offend! Can't we sort this out like gentlemen?
Actually an auto would be quite nice in there, but I'm having too much fun playing with the gear lever and making funny tunes at the moment.
Agreed - but a bit of left-foot braking combined with a judicious use of the
*throttle* will get you down quite safely. Needs a bit of practice, but I've trialled Tiggrr all this season with an auto (and gone down some pretty scary slopes) and it's been fine. Not as slow as a 2.5 n/a diesel in first low (a definition of slowness) but OK all the same.
Ah yes I recall it well... now I get to listen to the sucking of the Carbs instead :-) Or is it the petrol tank cap?
If it weren't for double declutching and a dodgie knee (hopefully resolved now) I'd still be stirring gears here.
Lee D
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