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Old 10-08-2009, 07:19 PM   #49 (permalink)
Formula413
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Originally Posted by The Atomic Ass View Post
The first thing that comes to mind is the possibility of a clutch interlock, preventing the transmission from being shifted without the clutch lever pulled.

The other, and less likely in your case, Formula, is poor technique. The shifter needs to be lightly loaded in the direction it's going, and the throttle snapped back enough to unload the transmission, (how far the throttle needs to be snapped is dynamic),
I'll cut you some slack since you qualified your hypothesis with "less likely".

Like I said, I tried different variations on this technique to no avail, but I'll give it another shot next time I take it out.
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