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Blip the throttle while in first and pull up on the shifter and setting still, it will fall into neutral. Just found out about this trick after fighting neutral for a couple of years.
Blip the throttle while in first and pull up on the shifter and setting still, it will fall into neutral. Just found out about this trick after fighting neutral for a couple of years.
Blip the throttle while in first and pull up on the shifter and setting still, it will fall into neutral. Just found out about this trick after fighting neutral for a couple of years.
Tried that over the weekend and it does work great.
Blip the throttle while in first and pull up on the shifter and setting still, it will fall into neutral. Just found out about this trick after fighting neutral for a couple of years.
My 87 has most always been good to go into neutral (from 1st only) so I never thought about a trick for the times it was in a slight bind and wouldn't. Makes sense that reving then backing off "blipping" as you say, would cause a zero drag at the point of up-down of rpms.
Tried the 1997bagger trick, YEP, works great! Learn something everyday....
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