Clutch knee

Surprised at all the double clutching members on here. Dam

 

I (literally) feel your pain. I was an active duty Marine. Just looking at that Mack Vision 10 speed makes my knees hurt while I'm in CDL school. Some ICY Hot helped as did elevating.

 

Actually, the "hydraulic clutch" you refer to, has nothing to do with the stiffness of the clutch. The hydraulic part does the same thing as conventional linkage, just brake fluid pushes the clutch arm. The stiffness comes from the pressure plate, and newer trucks have an improved pressure plate, called "the easy clutch". Older trucks didn't have that, and I drove a Mack where at a stop, you had to have both feet on the clutch.

 

Back when i was an equipment operator we used to run some old massey ferguson tractors that was built back in the early 70s. There was one tractor that still ran good but no power steering , hydraulics always was leaking, and the clutch was stiffer than a midget in a ##### house.i uses to drive it standing up, that was the only way to get it to go into gear. There was no fuel pedal on it either. Just clutch it into gear and let off and there she goes. Once u got going then u found out that the breaks didnt work on it LOL man that thing was a death trap. after all day of running that tractor u would get off and have jelly legs . couldnt barely walk . i remeber the first time i ran it , i got off for lunchbreak and fell on the ground my leg muscles had clocked out for the day lol gave all the crew a good laugh

 

Huh

 

I had surgery on my left knee, although not from shifting, I took too big a step off a flatbed. I still double clutch, but my clutch linkage is good except for the squeak under the dash.

 

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