A “slush box” is slang for an automatic transmission, not a manual transmission. The OP is referring to the 7 MT shift linkage clunking between 1st and 2nd.
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I apologize as I didn’t plan to confuse you. Sometimes I say motor when I should have said engine and that can be a real mess.
No problem. I wasn’t the one that was confused. Just trying to help educate you.
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The first couple of gears will take much longer to break in (smooth out and quiet down). You spend very little time with them engaged relative to the others. At least that's been my experience from 50 years of driving motorcycles, cars and trucks with manuals.
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As a regular practice, skipping 1st gear makes little sense. The ability to do so ought not be an endorsement of the practice.
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No reason not to if first gear is too low. Do it all the time in my Defender - clutch is doing just fine. First gear in Bronco MT is designed as a crawler gear.
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No it isn't. Crawler is a separate gear, then you have 1-6.
So what we have here is a matter of semantics- lowest gear is not indeed first? Then my mistake.
……but still if done correctly starting in second does no harm, been doing it for years.
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No, the MT has a lever that you have to manipulate to move to "crawler" and "reverse" gears, it isn't a normal part of the shifting pattern.
The complaints about 1st gear are nitpicky in a well functioning system.
Unless your 1st gear is a granny, I can't see an advantage to starting from 2nd. It is practically and mechanically proven to be the least effective way to move your vehicle.
….unless, for instance, starting on very slippery surfaces, facing downhill, ….
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There are numerous comments on this thread from people who are actually driving their Broncos and are telling us that second is too tall to start with from a dead stop. That is the part that doesn't appear to work. Now perhaps there's enough difference between say a 2-door BL with 4.70 gear ratio and a 4-door BD with 4.46 gear ratio and only slightly smaller tires that over time we'll hear different experiences from a broader range of people, but so far the anecdotal evidence we have to go on is that second is not an option unless you're already rolling (or presumably on a decent downward gradient).
Also out of curiosity do you actually believe that people "just... regear their transmission"? Their transmission???
with the performance of the 10 speed, I don't understand why anyone would ever want a manual!!!!!! LOL. What a pain in the ass!! Traffic, Trail riding, no thanks. I have driven probably 60 miles of trails so far and it is so enjoyable. The 10 speed is buttery smooth.
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The 10 speed is great and all (the one in my Raptor was fine) but these are largely a nostalgia driven purchase for many, and their classic Bronco or in my case FSB was a manual, or we want to keep the manual gearbox alive. If there were no manual Bronco I would get on eventually, the fact that the manual exists means I was first in line. Arguably it’s one of the last manual transmission SUV’s that will ever be available, and I want to keep the manual alive for future generations.
I daily drove a manual for about 18 of the last 25 years in metro traffic. Sure there are times in suck ass traffic where it wasn’t fun, but the good certainly outweighs the bad for me. I prefer the more engaged drive and actually having to demonstrate some talent to make it happen.
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Because:
a) some people enjoy manuals
b) 10 speeds is just too many gears, I had an F150 rental w/ the 10 spd and it never stopped shifting, almost as bad as a CVT, IMO
c) were you kidding?
After reading this thread I’ve been really paying attention to the smoothness of shifting between gears. Turning the auto stop start off made a world of difference for me. The minor start delay was making first gear feel really clunky. Feels much more natural with it off.
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