Truck Transmission Loses Reverse, Owner Devises Way to Make It Go Backwards Anyway - Neatorama

YouTube user hexdude24 owns a truck. The reverse gear in his transmission went out. He can't afford to fix it. In the meantime, he's using this device that he made. It slips under his rear wheels. As he drives forward, it pulls his truck backward.

Forgive me, readers: Alex hired me for my looks, not my brains. How does this system work? I'm struggling to understand it.

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Ingeniously simple yet still needlessly elaborate - In most situations I'd just get out and push :)

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Yes, it does. Thanks!

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My old Austin Allegro lost its starter motor (literally - the teeth on the ring were so worn that one day instead of meshing they met head on and pushed the starter out sideways through the casing), so I hjad to park facing downhill for a weekj or two.

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Quite brilliant. My old Pinto had no reverse for a while; I had to be really careful where I parked.

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Yes. What he said ^
The tires no longer touch the ground. Instead by going forward the tires drive the cylinders in reverse and the reversing cylinders are in contact with the ground.

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I know people who claim that speed enforcement is all that Indiana does. Which is kind of ironic considering the Indianapolis 500 - which runs on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana. . .

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I remember driving along I-90 in Ohio and realizing I was passing all trucks and none of them were passing me. I then saw a speed limit sign that sadi trucks was 60MPH and all others 70MPH. Later on I read that long haul drivers would cut across Ontario to meet time schedules.

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which is why 1984 is not impressive - every inch of everything we do is insanely corrupt and nepotistic, without any influence whatsoever its cellular

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