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[Dishtowel]

Takes a lot less than a second to end up on your roof.

On pavement with good traction you can easily get no rollback. Offroad, it's impossible to modulate the clutch well enough to prevent it without sometimes slipping the tires--and if you slip the least bit in some cases you can really be hosed.

I know, everyone will always think that if they were the ones in the seat, it would never have happened--that are too damn good. Or they think they could shift gears in a mud pit.

Or check out this climb--it's snot like mud. Watch my tires while I try to get on the road. The sun on that frozen mud turned it into stuff so slick you couldn't walk up it. You couldn't get enough speed on it in first so you had to shift. And I know everyone is a much better shifter than I am, with ninja reflexes, but you can see the speed come out of it when I shift. In thick mud, it sucks your tires to stop when you touch the clutch.

Finally, someone who understands me. lol. I like to think that I know how to drive, considering I'm licensed to drive anything on the road. I have been in some messy/tight/slippery/hilly situations, with both manual and automatic transmissions. I dont blindly like one over the other. Both are good, and both will excel in certain circumstances. But given the choice I would (did) choose to put an auto in my 4x4.
The End.

 

[gotmudd]

the only thing ican saay is that i have wheeled in both auto's and stick and for me the stick wins although with the tranny i am gonna have built for my rig it may be a toss up my question to the OP is this , since you went to the trouble to pull grills and fenders for a swap, that is if followed your posts right, why did you sepperate motor and tranny? granted with fenders and front clip still attatched you would have to sepperate them, but with the front clip off you may have been able to leave them together. helped friend change motor/tranny on BII, all we did was unbuckle fenders from body removed all but back 2 body bolts lifted body 6inches and squeezed it out.

 

[Hahnsb2]

Trust me, there are plenty of times an auto would be nice, but A. I'm sure as shit never going to use an A4LD and neither should anyone else and B. I'm not losing overdrive, therefore that pretty much limits me to a 5 speed, I like the challenge anyways, I can't jump in and hit the gas like my braindead friends do, I have to use some strategy.

 

[87 2.9 4/4]

front "clip" i think u called it is there the fenders are off the plastic cover was taken off i didnt drill out the spot welds i wanted to cut the front of the donor off but my dad for some stupid reason wanted it left there so we had to separate them.

 

[87 2.9 4/4]

so what do u's think should i do it or not is all the work worth it...