View Poll Results: In/out of gear
In gear
54
91.53%
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5
8.47%
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Leaving 5spd in gear...
#26
I'm so used to not having a parking brake, that I automatically park it in 1st or reverse. I even still do it and I still forget about releasing the pbrake sometimes. lol.
Short answer: I usually park it in gear unless I'm at home where it's almost level ground and dug holes from when I had no parking brake. lol.
Short answer: I usually park it in gear unless I'm at home where it's almost level ground and dug holes from when I had no parking brake. lol.
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I apply the parking brake and leave it in first all the time, except in the winter. It sucks when you brake shoes freezes to your drums and your ready to go somewhere and your truck won't move. Then you have to unfreeze them and it is -10 outside. Nothing a propane torch through the spokes of the wheels can't fix.
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Though our engines aren't interference engines, engines that are can be damaged by doing that. If there's no fuel/spark the engine wont start in the unlikely even the vehicle starts rolling in gear so forward is best for down hill and reverese for uphill.
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