Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 2)

Was this taken anywhere near Leatherhead by chance?

Has CF moved ( or been chased out ?) he has lived ( or been incarcerated ) in Leatherhead for the past many years. Unless his secure accommodation has been taken over by Illegal immigrants and he has been moved to Guildford ? Anyone got any info on The Great Man as to his whereabouts currently ?

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Could be but I reckon he was only the second man and the shot was taken by the driver !

How do you enter a roundabout, with a preselected upshift for the exit, but which is actuated by lifting the accelerator pedal on the overrun and for engine braking, on entry ?.

You also don’t want the clutch to be engaged while rev matching the split shift.Up or down.

Yes you’re in control of the thing but torque sensing wont allow for proper ā€˜pre selection’ of split shifts.Nor the correct rev matching of split shifts.

Obviously Eaton were worried about the competition using proper solely clutch actuated split shifts and made a, let’s say somewhat exaggerated bold claim, about the ability to preselect split shifts with the twin split.It’s either torque sensing or it’s clutch actuated.It can’t be both.

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Am I still on your Christmas Card list CF :santa_claus: :+1: :-1: :turkey:

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Nobody would ever do that with any gearbox, even in a car

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If this comes out as clear as mud I do apologise, but if you know you know…

I always used to preselect the upshift, but if something occurred before I’d made the shift then the only way to go was I’d be slowing down, in which case the preselect was still valid as I’d then be downshifting via the stick to half a gear lower.

The same as when driving a DAFwith a ZF, once in top gear I’d twist the collar to the left because the only possible change I’d make from top was a downshift.

It makes sense to me anyway :joy:

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As my above post. It’s not a preselected upshift, it’s just preselected gearing, it can go either way, up or down, but it’s still valid.

That’s going to confound him and Google. :thinking: :rofl:

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No need for the qualification: there is none so turbid as our Surrey correspondent.

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[sharp intake of breath] Living life on the edge are we? :wink:

Many moons ago I lived in Langport and if the wind was coming from the right (wrong) direction your nostrils would be suffused with the rich ā€œaromaā€ emanating from their Bridgwater factory.

[edit - speaking of Bridgwater and its surrounds, a line-up of Gillard’s Transport wagons from the late 70s

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I always remember them being big on Volvos. /edit

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Simple analysis of his posts this week alone, strongly suggests that he has never driven a lorry in his life and that clearly he is, therefore, simply a keyboard warrior.

And with so few of us active on TN now, we need a troll like a hole in the head.

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At one point in my career I was driving a powder tanker for K&M of Hucknall but based at Rugby Cement. I drove days and another driver drove it on nights and it was my job to fill up at a local garage before the handover. They had a special offer on and by the end of a week we had a cabful of glasses. Simply did not know what to do with them all. I don’t think the promoters had fully thought through the sales of hundreds of gallons of diesel every 24 hours. :rofl:

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This one that is active isn’t active because all he does is sit queing all day

Me too i did the same thing , i’d forgotten about the twist splitter and lift up for range change on the 95s. Better than the knock over on the 2800s though

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I might be the only one, but I quite liked the Comfortshift to be honest…:grimacing: I was always puzzled by the fact that none of the other manufacturers followed suit.

Something @star_down_under and many others have been saying for a while, and one of the reasons why a lot of good posters have left, unfortunately.

You just can’t educate porc, can you.

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I found it a pain because you couldn’t ā€œturn it offā€ ie i kept pressing it by mistake when changing gear in traffic.The motor was a pile of crap a 6x4 MAN 440 on landfill always breaking down .It was in limp mode more than not.I had to put up with it a few summers ago when temperatures rose to 41c air con was absent without leave the bonnet in the cab was hot both windows down and warning lights constantly on. Steering was barge like and the thing had been serviced from new by the main dealer. I was glad when they put it to rest. So the comfort change was just another annoyance but to be fair apart from that ….. it was a pile of crap

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I always rated the comfortshift as an easy way to change gear with a syncro box as against having to use the clutch all the while, BUT having read CF’s meanderings I’m thinking I was always wrong whether syncro or constant. Indeed should I have been changing gears :upside_down_face: at all?

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