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Re: Meshing Gears

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
Yes, there will be times with the gears won't mesh perfectly when you shift. If you think about it, Dog shifters have this problem as well. Anyways, we had no issue shifting on the fly. Occasionally one side would engage before the other, but it was never very bad. The best thing you can do is shift the trannies with pneumatics. They'll naturally act as springs and keep pushing the gears together till they mesh.
We did use pneumatics.. but that's part of the reason that the gears ate each other up
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