[AT] OT--Where's reverse on an MGB??

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Charlie, this letter alone is worth the subscription price of ATIS!!!  I
needed some cheer today, and this was a gooder.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT--Where's reverse on an MGB??


> Reminds me of a couple of vehicles from my past.  The  first was my Dad's
53
> Dodge 3/4 ton.  Something was wrong with the 3speed shifter on the column.
> To get it in reverse you had to grab the end of the lever in your right
> hand, run your left hand through the right side of the steering wheel and
> grab the shifter in the middle. Push the shifter up into second, pull it
> down into low and all in one motion push it up into reverse with your
right
> hand while pulling the shifter towards you and up with your left hand.
Even
> then it took practice.
>
> The other was a 13 speed fuller roadranger (RTO 12513) in a Brockway
truck.
> The driver who had run the truck  since it was new took another job and I
> took the truck over.  Mac (former driver) told me the day he left that he
> needed to show me how to get it in reverse.  He had never complained to
the
> boss about it being messed up and no one knew.  I guess he viewed it as
job
> security.
>
> Reverse was to the left against a spring detent and up.  To get it in
there
> you had to place your right leg so that your knee was just over the right
> hand corner of the seat, pull the shift lever against your leg and while
> pulling it hard to the left and pushing against it with your knee, slip it
> off your knee and up.  It would go right in and no one watching would ever
> realize there was a problem with it.
>
> A few weeks later, while my truck was in line waiting to be loaded on a
> logging job, the boss asked me to take his pickup and go for some parts.
> When I got back the whole logging job was shut down.  My truck  was parked
> in the hole between a barn and a big oak tree where you had to put  a
truck
> in order to be able to back it down onto the log deck.  The boss had tried
> to back it on the deck.  A couple of the other truck drivers had tried.
The
> loader operator, also a driver, had tried.  When I got there they were
> standing around it trying to figure out how to drag it out of the way.  I
> asked them what was wrong.  They told me the transmission was shot in my
> truck and it wouldn't go in reverse. (boss was looking at me like I must
> have broken it).
> I just grinned at them, got in the truck and backed it on the deck like
> nothing was wrong while they were cussing, stomping their hats, etc.  Like
I
> said before, job security!
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "warrensmith" <warrensmith at palmettobuilders.net>
> To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:17 AM
> Subject: [AT] OT--Where's reverse on an MGB??
>
>
> > Reverse on an MGB is down and to the left. Sometimes its hard to get. I
> > habitually rev the engine slightly in neutral, clutch depressed, slide
the
> > shifter up into first, then slide it down and to the left into reverse.
> >
> > Going from first to reverse is a lot easier for some reason. I guess it
> > has to do with the synchronizers.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Warren
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