Yesterday's Metra CollisionOK, now here we have a case of a bunch of dumbbuttes who entered a railroad grade crossing when they could plainly see that there was no room...
No, sorry. There is no particular range where the gears are any more aligned than at any other time.
The big thing for some race cars is that the dog clutches that they use are totally unlike the dog clutches in a typical production vehicle. They have far more "lash" or play, and there are fewer of them with larger, more robust "teeth". So when you got shift, you've got bigger holes to hit, and when they do hit, they can take it.
I'd just like to clear up a common misconception. In a modern gearbox, with the exception (sometimes) of reverse, you are *never* engaging and disengaging the actual *gears*. What engages and disengages are "dog clutches" (clutches with teeth that (most times) *resemble* gears) that one of an already-meshed pair of gears to either the input, output or "lay" shaft. One of the primary reasons for this is that if you were engaging and disengaging the gears themselves, you *would* damage their teeth, and because of fact that they each is meshed with another gear, that damage would be spread all around each gear pair (since they are almost never the same number of teeth, the pair of teeth which meet in one rotation aren't the same pair that meet again then next).
I just had to say that.
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