Very good demonstration. No need for fancy graphics. Your transparency was perfect. Great job showing the reverse idler gear. Very clear. I am not a mechanic, but I now have an understanding of my Model A transmission.
Good video Mr. Pete. Glad to see you back. I didn"t see anything from you last week and was worried some. I look forward to your videos every Saturday morning.
Well Mr. Pete, your explanation, backed up with the cut away of this transmission is in one simple word state of the art. I am 64 years, and back then I was studying mechanics, by teacher back then, did the same way to bring to all of us in the class room the how and why the different machines worked and performed. You really brought this transmission in our living room at its best. I own a 1930 Model A coupe, model that my grandpa brought from his brother that was here on the island of Curaçao the Ford dealer. So, you can image how deep the brand name Ford is in our family. Thank you so much for your well deserved effort and experience to be able to illustrate the function and indemnification of the total gear box assembly. Best regards from the Jacobs
Fantastic video. My youngest brother was a nut about transmissions since he was about 8 years old and made many with his Erector Set. I was always lost but now I understand this one with your great cut away and explanation. Great series Mr. Pete and happy to see this last one as it really informed me on how it works.
You may rest assured I watched all four parts of the series and gave myself a 100% on the test. Having been an automobile mechanic most of my life I have rebuilt or repaired many a transmission including automatics, mostly foreign, but never a model A transmission. Great job on the cut away and demonstration.
Great series Lyle, I have re-built a number of different manual gearboxes and understand the principles. My Daughter learnt about gears from her pushbike, which had 10 speeds, so getting into a manual car to learn to drive, she had some understanding of why to change gears. At 41, she will only drive manual cars.
Clearly and well explained even a lot better and more understandable than animations on youtube. This is the best video of a gearbox mechanism I've ever seen so far. All those animated explanations have something missing or they are too brief and passive but this video left no question unanswered. Great work!
That's a great video 👍 I had a 76 ford f-150 manual and now I'm driving a 93 ford f-150 manual . I have had my hands in a few transmissions in my day. I got a really big kick out of this video. 👍👍👍
Brilliant work on cut away and demonstration . Never appreciated the work that went into those cut aways you see in museums and shows . Thank you so much for doing this video series . A cut away is such a perfect way to discover how things work .
Nice archival content. 50 years from now, someone will "excavate" your video and say "Wow, how did anyone ever ride in a vehicle with that contraption in it"? Good stuff!
Thanks Mr Pete. Great series. I have driven many, many manual transmissions including the Model A, but never really understood how they worked. Now I do. Lots of old technology in a little box! Thanks again.
11 minutes in, you are explaining things very well! I told my 16 year old daughter this should be required material before I teach her to drive my truck. She is still learning on automatic, but she WILL learn to drive a stick. She is scared to death, but me and my wife told her once she learns she will discover it is much more fun.
Good video! I used it to show my 12 year old son how a transmission work. Growing up we had a bunch of old car to beat around in the field and wood. Crossing the train tracks at about mach 4, we ripped the bottom of the transmission off. We only had 4th gear left. We lost the cluster shaft assembly. This is how we learned about manual transmission. Good ol' days 😂😂
Thank you Mr Pete that was a very informative series. I think anyone who prefers interest over entertainment will enjoy that. Also, as old as that design is, you can clearly see it was a very clever design indeed. Superb, thanks again.
Lyle - good job in explaining the transmission. When my grandson gets here later for his 13th birthday cake I'll have to have him watch this as he is my shop assistant. We have the rear end of 'his' 1930 Model A pickup all apart just about ready to rebuild. Then to teach him how to drive with a non synchro standard transmission like you and I learned on! Have a great day.
In the old days (60's) it was fun to shift without using the clutch to see how smooth you could be. One could get pretty good at it with practice. Russ
Mr Pete. What an excellent demonstration of a manual gearbox. Here in the UK for some reason we drive Manual cars far more than auto's. At the age of 62 I have just recently moved over to an automatic after 40+ years of driving "Stick" Thank you for all the time and effort you put into all your presentations. Stay safe.
Mr. Pete, I would just like to thank you so much, as many have before me, regards your online tuitions. You are very much a fantastic teacher ❤️ who learnt the power of the internet. For this I thank you so much and as always, await your next viewing.
Good work and good explanation. I hope there are some young people as fascinated by mechanical principles as us older ones. This country is still going to need things built and fixed. And not just computers!
Dad was a machinist (and auto mechanic on the side) and showed me how a transmission worked, the 3 speed in our Fairlane. But, never a cutaway model. They really do help understanding what is going on - great work!
Typical old school teacher. Time your tests, make me rush and second guess myself. Glad we have pause button. 100% because of pause, fail if I didn't know things and didn't have pause. BTW 27 yrs of aircraft mechanics, thanks to teachers like you. Loved shop, loved tech school.
Mr. Pete, you are a national treasure! I always look forward to your videos! P.s. I'm proud to say that not only did my son learn to drive on a manual transmission, but he took his driver's test in one and passed first try! It's not a dead art yet!
My daughter never did learn to drive a manual, but the ultimate challenge would be learning to drive a stick in San Francisco. I know a guy who did. I used to drive our VW squareback there fairly regularly. Those hills are not for the faint of heart!
Great explanation! Takes me back to when I went to UNOH for Auto and Diesel Mechanics in 1982. Teachers used lots of aids like you made. Hands on testing consisted of complete disassembly of a transmission, engine, carburetor, or some other component. Then everyone was sent to break to forget how it came apart. The teacher would stir up the parts if you laid them out in order. Lol. Then after break time you had to reassemble the unit. Often the teacher would steal a piece to make sure you knew your stuff. First class or two I took were a bit boggling but soon I looked forward to tearing down an automatic just for the challenge. Learned a ton that I used as a mechanic and later as a maintenance tech in a detergent making and bottling plant. So glad they taught us to think thing through and figure out what makes it tick. 😊
Great video and nothing wrong with old school graphics. I still remember shop class in 1974 and still using this type of explanation. I wish this could be seen by kids in shop class so they get a better idea of how things work.
Well done, very well explained. Really enjoyable! First real learning to operate a manual, unsynchronized gearbox was in an 8 ton railroad shunter pulling a 100 ton train. Missing a gear shift, stop and starting again was the option. The clutch pedal was moving up and down from the floor. The throttle was a hand operated lever. That technic also worked fine to speed up gear shifts in synchronized gearboxes i heavy vehicles like buses and trucks.
Never passed on having a good long look and a bit of play when it comes to cutaways. always learn so much more and so much faster when playing with one of these
Always enjoy all your videos. This one was well done. Thumbs up non stop. I have ordered and received two rose index. Timm even called after placing my order and we spoke for about 20 minutes. Wonderful guy, he asked how I learned of his product and I gave full credit to you. Thanks for all you do.
Nicely done SIR, always a pleasure to watch anything you do for us. "time to put your tools away" was never music to my ears, I could be there every day, all day, very happily.
You did a very good job on the cut a way, and a most excellent job on explaining how a transmission works. You have not lost your touch!!!!! Thank You for this video!!
Wow. This was so good. The specific areas in the video that were hard to understand (3rd gear and reverse) where reexamined later. You know how to teach!
The Model A engine has a red line of about 2400 RPM. Much faster than that then the bearings begin to get starved for oil because there is no pressurized system in the model A engine. Thank you Mr. Pete.
Man you are a hell of a teacher. I did have a couple like you and I will always remember them and what they thought me. Thank you for always teaching and for the time you put into it. I only wish that new teachers could see how you do what you do.
Yeaaa I got an A. Mr Pete only got a B because he said in high gear the cluster gear does nothing. However it still slings oil on all the other moving parts. Love your videos Mr Pete!
Excellent video series about an unsynchronized gear box. Many, many years ago I had a summer job in the local sand pit. My job was to move sand from place A to place B. This was done with a very old Allis Chalmers wheel loader which had that type of gear box. I soon learned to use it with intermediate gas pedal instead of the clutch. It became a habit which amazed my driving instructor later on 🦽🦽🦽
Great series Lyle, very well done and explained. Never driven a model A, driven lots of manuals being from the UK though, the noise that spur gear box makes is very typical of the British Leyland boxes boxes from the 60's & 70's that I learnt to drive with. Enjoyed. Cheers, Jon
The mother of a friend of mine once described learning to drive with a "crashbox" transmission in Norway as a kid. My own daughter never got the hang of a manual, but since she travels a lot out of the country, she''s thinking about trying again.
Well, while I'm not a "grammer nazi" I do wish people would use proper punctuation. Auction listing said "Lathe South Bend Heavy 10. Tools and Parts" What it SHOULD have said "(Wood) Lathe. South Bend Heavy 10 tools and parts"
Mr Pete this has got to be your best cutaway ever absolutely loved watching the series that engineering is very similar to my motor cycle but I don’t have reverse just three forward great stuff thanks so much
Another wonderful video. You have taught so many people all about the wonderful world of engineering. In the UK manual gearboxes are still the most common. I drive both but I prefer a manual box. More control and better mpg.
Perfect presentation. During the test, I only confused the third gear with the neutral gear, because I did not know how deep the multi-spline goes. But that was explained and shown at the end of the movie. Now I know. Thanks again for a great lesson.
Marvelous, just marvelous!!!!! That was a great video presentation. A great finale to this fantastic series! Thank you for all your time and effort to put this series together!!!
Great video series. One more cut-away please to show that pin/spring that keeps it from going in two gears at once. That extra transmission (with grease not oil) is also the solution to your drill press slow speed problem.
Enjoyed Mr. Pete ! Your explanation was spot on ! I did drive a automatic car at times for drivers education, but all my wife and I vehicles were manual transmissions, until about age 30. I've never had a manual transmission fail me, wish I could say that about the automatics.
Great video from the master machinist...I just bought a few Model A's and understood you perfectly. Not much clearance on the back gears, kind of crazy design but it works.
Very good video and explanation. I realize it would be difficult to do without an actual clutch in that assembly but with gears explosed like that one extra explanation about technique of double clutching would make for a great part 5.
Hi Lyle, You must be a good teacher, I got an A. The main drive gear/spline and the back of the second gear cog looks almost like they just drilled a pile of holes to act as the coupling. Engineering back then was rough, but a few extra pounds of metal never worried anyone, not like today when they want everything to be as light as possible. I have driven many manual cars, and learnt on a 1949 Morris Z utility with 3 forward and reverse crash box, got my truck licence on an old Ford with a full crash box, and still drive manual vehicles daily. I am similar vintage to you. Regards Dennis
Thanks Mr Pete I've just put together a T84 for my Ford GPW project, identical process with the transmission of power but the Jeep box has a synchronized second and top gear. That Ford box is a better box with the needle rollers than the Birg Warner which has several bronze bushes in the cluster gear! Only thing is you can pull them down and rebuild in about an hour if required. Great old fashioned engineering in my opinion! All the best from Australia!!!
Thanks, Pete. These episode have learnt me something new. I like the way you illusstrate certain things. No need for alle the fancy graphics. Old school all the way. Once again thanks.
I enjoyed the whole series . It brought me back to my occupation ( as you referred to it as shade tree but not 😵💫 ) . Oh for the days that you actually rebuilt components!
I left after 21 yrs as Senior Master Cert. tech at one Ford dealership 4 yrs ago. The repairs we have to do today make this look like a easy shade tree job like we all use to enjoy back in our teens. 10 speed auto trans now, every thing much more heavy duty and durable now. Really enjoyed the simplicity of this video. I worked on stuff from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90, 00s , 10s, 20, etc. You can see how durability and design has come so far as we have evolved in automotive. Now to get rid of that goofy reciprocating piston design that is so silly and inefficient.
Great series! I have a 1995 Jeep Wrangler with a 5 speed that I have trouble explaining gearing/shifting to my daughters. Maybe this will click with them. Glad that you are back, looking forward to more projects!
Got worried for a moment, Mr. Pete. Glad to see you back. My manual transmission vehicles were: 1951 Studebaker 3 spd w/OD, 1961 MGA 4 spd, 1971 VW Beetle 4 spd, 1957 Chevy Pickup 4 spd aftermarket, 1981 Ford F-100 4 spd, 1997 Isuzu Rodeo 5 spd, 1994 Jeep Wrangler 4 spd, 2005 Toyota Tacoma 6 spd, 2007 Mazda Miata 6 spd. So my preference has always been manual transmissions. Sure miss them.
Great video i use to have a wwII wca Dodge that i could drive without any problems but only a handful of people could drive it with out grinding the gears and dumping the clutch which was a mechanical linkage instead of hydraulic like most of the standard transmissions of today
model A's owner excellent presentation that explains why more noise in second and reverse gear than others, and not to worry too much on these transmission types, plus oil level minimums will void driving pleasure.
Pete, This was a great tutorial. If I had a new driver in the house I would sit them down and make then watch this, especially the part 4. My first car was a "53 Plymouth. The girls in my high school called it the blue boob. I shifted it so e
Great videos Mr. Pete. In my 20s I drove tractor trailers (semis) with 13 forward speeds and no synchros. With some experience, you only use the clutch for initial engagement and when coming to a stop. One learns to "float" the gears, in which no double clutching (or single clutching) is needed for changing gears. That straight cut gear box must have made quite a racket at speed! Thanks again for the very informational video
This is awesome Mr. Pete. 17:15 Thanks for spline'in it to us. 17:25 Clashing, yes. As I understand, this type of transmission, not being constant mesh, are referred to as crash boxes. Gears and "splines" are routinely introduced to each other. Going forward, you might investigate a constant mesh transmission, and do the same cut away project. You can show your followers the advantage of constant mesh designs.
@@mrpete222 A typical motorcycle transmission would offer you views of constant mesh yet unsynchronized technology. Then from there perhaps you could do a cut away on a modern automotive manual trans that would be both constant mesh and synchronized.
Those overlays were helpful in seeing how to power flows. I learned to drive in a Model A. Learning to double clutch on the downshift was a challenge with the heavy clutch.
Great stuff. I like the transparencies. Makes perfect sense. I read somewhere that if you had trouble climbing a hill in a Tin Lizzy, you could back up the hill. With that 4:1 reverse and the fuel tank up in front, I wasn't sure if it was the lower gearing or fuel starvation that you were working with. Well done, and thank you!
I got an A!!!! I also remembered hearing guys would put one of these backwards behind the real transmission, and get 2 different overdrive ratios. The old guys that did that stuff are long gone now.
Great video! Earlier this year, my dad and I rebuilt an automatic transmission out of a 2000 Lexus RX 300. a U140 model. I sure wish it was as simple as this to understand. I did figure it out how all of it worked by the time we had it apart and were rebuilding it. They sure are complicated. Especially the Valve body. I hope to put a better valve body in next spring when I get my tax return. The one that came with this transmission are defective, causing hard shifts from 2nd-3rd. It was fixed in later models. I've always been fascinated with gears. I make them quite often on my 3D printer that I built. Looking forward to what you have in store next for us to learn about!
@@mrpete222 They are basically all of the same physical gear trains. They have clutches and brakes that activate with valves that are powered by solenoids. The older automatics are vacuum powered, but the newer ones are electronically controlled. Third gear is still a 1:1 ratio. And overdrive is a planetary gear that is activated by 1 clutch and 1 brake. On my transmission, it had it's own section in the transmission.
Glad to see you back, kind of worried, now on with the show. I've drove manual transmission cars in the mid 60's, plus a school bus, military vehicle so I would qualify as a driver of manual transmission.
I really appreciate all the effort you put into this Lyle. You put a lot of work into this and I found out once again, I don't know everything. I never realized the reverse idler is always in gear. Ps: I took the test and would have passed but for some reason I said 5th gear in the last one🙄
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As a former Auto shop teacher and Model A restorer to boot.. You get an A+ with extra credit... Never get tired of your work.!!
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Very good demonstration. No need for fancy graphics. Your transparency was perfect. Great job showing the reverse idler gear. Very clear. I am not a mechanic, but I now have an understanding of my Model A transmission.
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Good video Mr. Pete. Glad to see you back. I didn"t see anything from you last week and was worried some. I look forward to your videos every Saturday morning.
He was probably off at a “teacher’s institute”
I wonder if he has a “teacher’s break room” in his shop?
He slacks off during the summer months. They are doing family stuff with the grandkids. Just a little break till fall.
@@bestfriendhank1424 Smoke was usually rolling out of the teachers break room..LOL. I had forgotten about all that about 35 yrs ago.
@@larryrobinson7492 the high school kids hid behind the gymnasium to smoke while the teachers “monitored” the dumpsters. 🚬🤣
Well Mr. Pete, your explanation, backed up with the cut away of this transmission is in one simple word state of the art. I am 64 years, and back then I was studying mechanics, by teacher back then, did the same way to bring to all of us in the class room the how and why the different machines worked and performed. You really brought this transmission in our living room at its best. I own a 1930 Model A coupe, model that my grandpa brought from his brother that was here on the island of Curaçao the Ford dealer. So, you can image how deep the brand name Ford is in our family.
Thank you so much for your well deserved effort and experience to be able to illustrate the function and indemnification of the total gear box assembly.
Best regards from the Jacobs
Thank you so much for a lovely comment. I am very glad you like the video.
Welcome back, I'm sure I speak for many , who missed your wit and content.
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Fantastic video. My youngest brother was a nut about transmissions since he was about 8 years old and made many with his Erector Set. I was always lost but now I understand this one with your great cut away and explanation. Great series Mr. Pete and happy to see this last one as it really informed me on how it works.
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You may rest assured I watched all four parts of the series and gave myself a 100% on the test. Having been an automobile mechanic most of my life I have rebuilt or repaired many a transmission including automatics, mostly foreign, but never a model A transmission. Great job on the cut away and demonstration.
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Great series Lyle, I have re-built a number of different manual gearboxes and understand the principles. My Daughter learnt about gears from her pushbike, which had 10 speeds, so getting into a manual car to learn to drive, she had some understanding of why to change gears. At 41, she will only drive manual cars.
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Most excellent. A Teacher never stops Teaching. I made an "A"...
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On these older transmissions without synchonizers, is gear grinding to be expected?
I really enjoyed this video series. Thank you making this a cutaway.
Clearly and well explained even a lot better and more understandable than animations on youtube. This is the best video of a gearbox mechanism I've ever seen so far.
All those animated explanations have something missing or they are too brief and passive but this video left no question unanswered. Great work!
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I had a 76 ford f-150 manual and now I'm driving a 93 ford f-150 manual .
I have had my hands in a few transmissions in my day. I got a really big kick out of this video. 👍👍👍
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Brilliant work on cut away and demonstration . Never appreciated the work that went into those cut aways you see in museums and shows .
Thank you so much for doing this video series . A cut away is such a perfect way to discover how things work .
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Nice archival content. 50 years from now, someone will "excavate" your video and say "Wow, how did anyone ever ride in a vehicle with that contraption in it"? Good stuff!
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Thanks Mr Pete. Great series. I have driven many, many manual transmissions including the Model A, but never really understood how they worked. Now I do. Lots of old technology in a little box! Thanks again.
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11 minutes in, you are explaining things very well! I told my 16 year old daughter this should be required material before I teach her to drive my truck. She is still learning on automatic, but she WILL learn to drive a stick. She is scared to death, but me and my wife told her once she learns she will discover it is much more fun.
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I appreciate everything you do to encourage mechanics and engineers both to be educated and out home workshop community.
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Thank you Mr Pete. Glad you are ok. I was worried about you. I hope you and your family are doing well.
Good video! I used it to show my 12 year old son how a transmission work.
Growing up we had a bunch of old car to beat around in the field and wood. Crossing the train tracks at about mach 4, we ripped the bottom of the transmission off. We only had 4th gear left. We lost the cluster shaft assembly. This is how we learned about manual transmission.
Good ol' days 😂😂
Thank you Mr Pete that was a very informative series. I think anyone who prefers interest over entertainment will enjoy that. Also, as old as that design is, you can clearly see it was a very clever design indeed. Superb, thanks again.
Glad you are back. Was kinda worried. Steve Summers put our minds at ease. Thanks Steve
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Lyle - good job in explaining the transmission. When my grandson gets here later for his 13th birthday cake I'll have to have him watch this as he is my shop assistant. We have the rear end of 'his' 1930 Model A pickup all apart just about ready to rebuild. Then to teach him how to drive with a non synchro standard transmission like you and I learned on! Have a great day.
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That's awesome, what a lucky kid!
In the old days (60's) it was fun to shift without using the clutch to see how smooth you could be. One could get pretty good at it with practice.
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Mr Pete. What an excellent demonstration of a manual gearbox. Here in the UK for some reason we drive Manual cars far more than auto's. At the age of 62 I have just recently moved over to an automatic after 40+ years of driving "Stick" Thank you for all the time and effort you put into all your presentations. Stay safe.
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Mr. Pete, I would just like to thank you so much, as many have before me, regards your online tuitions. You are very much a fantastic teacher ❤️ who learnt the power of the internet. For this I thank you so much and as always, await your next viewing.
Thank you very much for your encouragement, glad you like the videos
Good work and good explanation. I hope there are some young people as fascinated by mechanical principles as us older ones. This country is still going to need things built and fixed. And not just computers!
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Dad was a machinist (and auto mechanic on the side) and showed me how a transmission worked, the 3 speed in our Fairlane. But, never a cutaway model. They really do help understanding what is going on - great work!
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I like the illustration with the transparencies - it reminds me of the ones from early 20th century instructional videos.
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That’s an interesting way to say it!
Typical old school teacher. Time your tests, make me rush and second guess myself. Glad we have pause button. 100% because of pause, fail if I didn't know things and didn't have pause. BTW 27 yrs of aircraft mechanics, thanks to teachers like you. Loved shop, loved tech school.
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Mr. Pete, you are a national treasure! I always look forward to your videos!
P.s. I'm proud to say that not only did my son learn to drive on a manual transmission, but he took his driver's test in one and passed first try! It's not a dead art yet!
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My daughter never did learn to drive a manual, but the ultimate challenge would be learning to drive a stick in San Francisco. I know a guy who did. I used to drive our VW squareback there fairly regularly. Those hills are not for the faint of heart!
Great explanation! Takes me back to when I went to UNOH for Auto and Diesel Mechanics in 1982. Teachers used lots of aids like you made. Hands on testing consisted of complete disassembly of a transmission, engine, carburetor, or some other component. Then everyone was sent to break to forget how it came apart. The teacher would stir up the parts if you laid them out in order. Lol. Then after break time you had to reassemble the unit. Often the teacher would steal a piece to make sure you knew your stuff.
First class or two I took were a bit boggling but soon I looked forward to tearing down an automatic just for the challenge. Learned a ton that I used as a mechanic and later as a maintenance tech in a detergent making and bottling plant. So glad they taught us to think thing through and figure out what makes it tick. 😊
Great video and nothing wrong with old school graphics. I still remember shop class in 1974 and still using this type of explanation. I wish this could be seen by kids in shop class so they get a better idea of how things work.
Well done, very well explained. Really enjoyable!
First real learning to operate a manual, unsynchronized gearbox was in an 8 ton railroad shunter pulling a 100 ton train. Missing a gear shift, stop and starting again was the option.
The clutch pedal was moving up and down from the floor. The throttle was a hand operated lever. That technic also worked fine to speed up gear shifts in synchronized gearboxes i heavy vehicles like buses and trucks.
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Never passed on having a good long look and a bit of play when it comes to cutaways. always learn so much more and so much faster when playing with one of these
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Always enjoy all your videos. This one was well done. Thumbs up non stop. I have ordered and received two rose index. Timm even called after placing my order and we spoke for about 20 minutes. Wonderful guy, he asked how I learned of his product and I gave full credit to you. Thanks for all you do.
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EXTREMELY well done and once a teacher, always a teacher.
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Nicely done SIR, always a pleasure to watch anything you do for us. "time to put your tools away" was never music to my ears, I could be there every day, all day, very happily.
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You did a very good job on the cut a way, and a most excellent job on explaining how a transmission works. You have not lost your touch!!!!!
Thank You for this video!!
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Even though I know how to drive a manual transmission car, this is a very interesting demonstration. Thanks.
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MR. PETE. MOST EXCELLRNT DEMONSTRATION ON THE MODEL. A. TRANSMISSION. VERY GOOD TEACHER.
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Wow. This was so good. The specific areas in the video that were hard to understand (3rd gear and reverse) where reexamined later. You know how to teach!
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Love to see your back. Had me worried there. Thank you Mr Pete.
Fascinating end to the series Mr Pete, thank you so much for making these videos. Cheers, Alan.
The Model A engine has a red line of about 2400 RPM. Much faster than that then the bearings begin to get starved for oil because there is no pressurized system in the model A engine. Thank you Mr. Pete.
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Man you are a hell of a teacher. I did have a couple like you and I will always remember them and what they thought me. Thank you for always teaching and for the time you put into it. I only wish that new teachers could see how you do what you do.
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The transparencies are brilliant! Thank you Mr. Pete!!
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Yeaaa I got an A. Mr Pete only got a B because he said in high gear the cluster gear does nothing. However it still slings oil on all the other moving parts. Love your videos Mr Pete!
Excellent video series about an unsynchronized gear box.
Many, many years ago I had a summer job in the local sand pit. My job was to move sand from place A to place B. This was done with a very old Allis Chalmers wheel loader which had that type of gear box. I soon learned to use it with intermediate gas pedal instead of the clutch. It became a habit which amazed my driving instructor later on 🦽🦽🦽
This might be one of the best explanations on how a gearbox works
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Great series Lyle, very well done and explained. Never driven a model A, driven lots of manuals being from the UK though, the noise that spur gear box makes is very typical of the British Leyland boxes boxes from the 60's & 70's that I learnt to drive with. Enjoyed. Cheers, Jon
That was fun, thanks!
Really illustrates why driving used to be a challenging skill to acquire. Either learn to rev match or tear up your gearbox.
The mother of a friend of mine once described learning to drive with a "crashbox" transmission in Norway as a kid. My own daughter never got the hang of a manual, but since she travels a lot out of the country, she''s thinking about trying again.
Top notch series........plus glad to see that all is fine with you. Thank you.
Great series Mr Pete, it was great seeing the flow of power through the transmission.
Glad to see you back! Now its time for me to get over to sn auction- going to take a look at a South Bend Heavy 10......
Well, while I'm not a "grammer nazi" I do wish people would use proper punctuation. Auction listing said "Lathe South Bend Heavy 10. Tools and Parts"
What it SHOULD have said "(Wood) Lathe. South Bend Heavy 10 tools and parts"
Mr Pete this has got to be your best cutaway ever absolutely loved watching the series that engineering is very similar to my motor cycle but I don’t have reverse just three forward great stuff thanks so much
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Another wonderful video.
You have taught so many people all about the wonderful world of engineering.
In the UK manual gearboxes are still the most common.
I drive both but I prefer a manual box. More control and better mpg.
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You are a rare old school gem sir thank u for your knowledge 🙏
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Perfect presentation. During the test, I only confused the third gear with the neutral gear, because I did not know how deep the multi-spline goes. But that was explained and shown at the end of the movie. Now I know.
Thanks again for a great lesson.
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Thanks for the excellent little series, I've very much enjoyed the whole thing. I'm now thinking of doing my own.
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Marvelous, just marvelous!!!!! That was a great video presentation. A great finale to this fantastic series! Thank you for all your time and effort to put this series together!!!
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Great series, Mr. Pete. Really made me think when you said how few people have driven a vehicle with a manual transmission these days.
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Great video series. One more cut-away please to show that pin/spring that keeps it from going in two gears at once. That extra transmission (with grease not oil) is also the solution to your drill press slow speed problem.
Enjoyed Mr. Pete ! Your explanation was spot on !
I did drive a automatic car at times for drivers education, but all my wife and I vehicles were manual transmissions, until about age 30. I've never had a manual transmission fail me, wish I could say that about the automatics.
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Great video from the master machinist...I just bought a few Model A's and understood you perfectly. Not much clearance on the back gears, kind of crazy design but it works.
Great edutainment video. It has been a while since we saw you in a new one.
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You put a lot of work into a project to give us great entertainment as well as great information.
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Very good video and explanation. I realize it would be difficult to do without an actual clutch in that assembly but with gears explosed like that one extra explanation about technique of double clutching would make for a great part 5.
I really enjoyed and learned a lot from this series. Thank you for taking the time to do this, I appreciate it.
Thanks for making this video series--very informative. I appreciate all the effort you put into this series and all your videos!
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You must be a good teacher, I got an A.
The main drive gear/spline and the back of the second gear cog looks almost like they just drilled a pile of holes to act as the coupling. Engineering back then was rough, but a few extra pounds of metal never worried anyone, not like today when they want everything to be as light as possible.
I have driven many manual cars, and learnt on a 1949 Morris Z utility with 3 forward and reverse crash box, got my truck licence on an old Ford with a full crash box, and still drive manual vehicles daily. I am similar vintage to you.
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Thanks Mr Pete I've just put together a T84 for my Ford GPW project, identical process with the transmission of power but the Jeep box has a synchronized second and top gear. That Ford box is a better box with the needle rollers than the Birg Warner which has several bronze bushes in the cluster gear! Only thing is you can pull them down and rebuild in about an hour if required. Great old fashioned engineering in my opinion! All the best from Australia!!!
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Thanks, Pete. These episode have learnt me something new. I like the way you illusstrate certain things. No need for alle the fancy graphics. Old school all the way.
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i was getting worried for a sec lyle!
I enjoyed the whole series . It brought me back to my occupation ( as you referred to it as shade tree but not 😵💫 ) . Oh for the days that you actually rebuilt components!
I left after 21 yrs as Senior Master Cert. tech at one Ford dealership 4 yrs ago. The repairs we have to do today make this look like a easy shade tree job like we all use to enjoy back in our teens. 10 speed auto trans now, every thing much more heavy duty and durable now. Really enjoyed the simplicity of this video. I worked on stuff from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90, 00s , 10s, 20, etc. You can see how durability and design has come so far as we have evolved in automotive. Now to get rid of that goofy reciprocating piston design that is so silly and inefficient.
Great demonstration and project. Making learning a hands on process always enhances the event.
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Great series! I have a 1995 Jeep Wrangler with a 5 speed that I have trouble explaining gearing/shifting to my daughters. Maybe this will click with them.
Glad that you are back, looking forward to more projects!
Got worried for a moment, Mr. Pete. Glad to see you back. My manual transmission vehicles were: 1951 Studebaker 3 spd w/OD, 1961 MGA 4 spd, 1971 VW Beetle 4 spd, 1957 Chevy Pickup 4 spd aftermarket, 1981 Ford F-100 4 spd, 1997 Isuzu Rodeo 5 spd, 1994 Jeep Wrangler 4 spd, 2005 Toyota Tacoma 6 spd, 2007 Mazda Miata 6 spd. So my preference has always been manual transmissions. Sure miss them.
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Thanks for sharing this series. I really enjoyed it. Just for reference the Army alway painted the inside of their cut aways yellow.
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Thanks Mr Pete I thoroughly enjoyed that and your transparencies were much clearer than most animations. We definitely need more shop dog though.
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Thanks and good to see you back.
Great video i use to have a wwII wca Dodge that i could drive without any problems but only a handful of people could drive it with out grinding the gears and dumping the clutch which was a mechanical linkage instead of hydraulic like most of the standard transmissions of today
What an awesome visual explanation. The pup is cute.
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excellent presentation that explains why more noise in second and reverse gear than others, and not to worry too much on these transmission types, plus oil level minimums will void driving pleasure.
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Pete, This was a great tutorial. If I had a new driver in the house I would sit them down and make then watch this, especially the part 4.
My first car was a "53 Plymouth. The girls in my high school called it the blue boob. I shifted it so e
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Hey Mr. Pete I use 600w oil in my Model a transmission I think that is what Ford recommended
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Well, that explains something about which I've often thought! Very nicely done, thanks.
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Great videos Mr. Pete. In my 20s I drove tractor trailers (semis) with 13 forward speeds and no synchros. With some experience, you only use the clutch for initial engagement and when coming to a stop. One learns to "float" the gears, in which no double clutching (or single clutching) is needed for changing gears. That straight cut gear box must have made quite a racket at speed! Thanks again for the very informational video
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This is awesome Mr. Pete. 17:15 Thanks for spline'in it to us.
17:25 Clashing, yes. As I understand, this type of transmission, not being constant mesh, are referred to as crash boxes. Gears and "splines" are routinely introduced to each other. Going forward, you might investigate a constant mesh transmission, and do the same cut away project. You can show your followers the advantage of constant mesh designs.
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@@mrpete222 A typical motorcycle transmission would offer you views of constant mesh yet unsynchronized technology. Then from there perhaps you could do a cut away on a modern automotive manual trans that would be both constant mesh and synchronized.
Mr Pete Sure glad to see you hope you enjoyed your time off
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Those overlays were helpful in seeing how to power flows. I learned to drive in a Model A. Learning to double clutch on the downshift was a challenge with the heavy clutch.
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I got an A- you took off points for neatness, I had grease on my paper. Love all your videos thank you for your time and knowledge
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What a great idea! Many today don't understand anything about mechanical design.
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Super interesting and well-explained Mr. Pete, thanks! Great to hear your voice again. Dave in RI
I'm putting g it simple,you did an outstanding job on this presentation you get 5 gold stars🤗😎🤗😎
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You’re a true teacher and thank you for the demonstration!
Great stuff. I like the transparencies. Makes perfect sense. I read somewhere that if you had trouble climbing a hill in a Tin Lizzy, you could back up the hill. With that 4:1 reverse and the fuel tank up in front, I wasn't sure if it was the lower gearing or fuel starvation that you were working with. Well done, and thank you!
I got an A!!!! I also remembered hearing guys would put one of these backwards behind the real transmission, and get 2 different overdrive ratios. The old guys that did that stuff are long gone now.
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Crash box is what I call them. Nice job on your project.
Great video! Earlier this year, my dad and I rebuilt an automatic transmission out of a 2000 Lexus RX 300. a U140 model. I sure wish it was as simple as this to understand. I did figure it out how all of it worked by the time we had it apart and were rebuilding it. They sure are complicated. Especially the Valve body. I hope to put a better valve body in next spring when I get my tax return. The one that came with this transmission are defective, causing hard shifts from 2nd-3rd. It was fixed in later models. I've always been fascinated with gears. I make them quite often on my 3D printer that I built. Looking forward to what you have in store next for us to learn about!
I am afraid I do not understand much about the automatics
@@mrpete222 They are basically all of the same physical gear trains. They have clutches and brakes that activate with valves that are powered by solenoids. The older automatics are vacuum powered, but the newer ones are electronically controlled. Third gear is still a 1:1 ratio. And overdrive is a planetary gear that is activated by 1 clutch and 1 brake. On my transmission, it had it's own section in the transmission.
Glad to see you back, kind of worried, now on with the show. I've drove manual transmission cars in the mid 60's, plus a school bus, military vehicle so I would qualify as a driver of manual transmission.
I really appreciate all the effort you put into this Lyle. You put a lot of work into this and I found out once again, I don't know everything. I never realized the reverse idler is always in gear.
Ps: I took the test and would have passed but for some reason I said 5th gear in the last one🙄
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