What Happens If You Put A MANUAL Transmission In REVERSE While Driving?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoDoNJJAae4

[Gunny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoDoNJJAae4Am I missing where the fun is in trashing your transmission for a youtube video? He needs to grow some stones and try that on a 60's era transmission. Or one with a locking diff instead of limited slip.

[tailfins]

Am I missing where the fun is in trashing your transmission for a youtube video? He needs to grow some stones and try that on a 60's era transmission. Or one with a locking diff instead of limited slip.


It wouldn't even go into gear. I have owned multiple 1950s vehicles with manual transmissions and you had to kind of rev-match the gear before it would let you shift even in the forward gears. It wouldn't even go into the reverse gear while even creeping forward. Synchronized transmissions were introduced sometime in the 1960s. If you have to double-clutch in a non-synchronized transmission, there's no way you're getting it into reverse while moving forward.

[Gunny]

It wouldn't even go into gear. I have owned multiple 1950s vehicles with manual transmissions and you had to kind of rev-match the gear before it would let you shift even in the forward gears. It wouldn't even go into the reverse gear while even creeping forward. Synchronized transmissions were introduced sometime in the 1960s. If you have to double-clutch in a non-synchronized transmission, there's no way you're getting it into reverse while moving forward.

He could destroy his diff and driveshaft trying. You can bust off all the teeth on your gears.

I learned to drive on a 63 Comet,3 on the tree. Had doing such a dumbass thing occurred to me, I would have been more concerned with what my Dad was going to do to my ass than attempting to do something mechanically stupid:laugh: