Hello from IA
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:19 pm
New here, don't have it yet but at some point in the near (hopefully) future I'll have my grandpas 98 Dakota. Currently I have a 99 Saturn but it is an auto. I had a 89 Mustang 5 speed in high school for about 3 months before I got tired of parts breaking on it and it being somewhat unreliable.
I can get where I'm going with a stick, but I'll openly admit I don't really know how to smoothly downshift, I lived in a small enough town I never really had a reason to have to downshift other than putting it back in first at lights. Hopefully some practice with the truck will fix that. I could probably be a bit smoother on hills as well, but I couldn't really practice that well with that Mustang due to it having the gutless wonder NA 2.2L. About the only way to get that up more than a slight hill was to revbomb it and slip the **** out of the clutch and go. Should be able to get much better with the truck since it will actually have some torque.
I can get where I'm going with a stick, but I'll openly admit I don't really know how to smoothly downshift, I lived in a small enough town I never really had a reason to have to downshift other than putting it back in first at lights. Hopefully some practice with the truck will fix that. I could probably be a bit smoother on hills as well, but I couldn't really practice that well with that Mustang due to it having the gutless wonder NA 2.2L. About the only way to get that up more than a slight hill was to revbomb it and slip the **** out of the clutch and go. Should be able to get much better with the truck since it will actually have some torque.