re rfi art of clutchless shifting in a previous article lusky ccwf cc utexas edu jonathan r lusky says in article lrr psuvm psu edu lrr psuvm psu edu writes i m not familiar with the trannies used in winston cup but in the trans am cars i ve played with the transmissions were the racing variety with dog clutches instead of sychros in a transmission with dog clutches the gears are always engaged with each other and moving the dog clutches engages the gears to the shafts motorcycle transmissions are the same way shifting without the clutch on a transmission with syncros can and will cause transmission damage the only question being how long it takesto grenade something for the trans in my pulsar se it was about k miles but it had a weak tranny in the first place just out of curiosity how is this dog clutch any different from a synchro transmission what you described sounds the same to me in fact what little i ve studied on trannies the instructor referred to the synchros as dogs and said they were synonymous the gears are always meshed in a synchronized gearbox and you slip the synchro gears back and forth by shifting or at least that is what i was taught explain por favour thanx drew ps email s fine if this is inappropriate for here or if i m the only bonhead who doesn t know the diff
