Agent Orange: Friendly fire that keeps on burning. | When you or the computer slips the clutch, it makes heat and wears things out. The auto-shift transmissions in HD trucks employ a similar trick. Mess around backing in a soft muddy field and eventually the "Clutch Abuse" light will come on. The need to couple and uncouple a running engine makes things unnecessarily complicated. Too bad that no one has come up with a power source that doesn't need a clutch or multiple speed transmission and the need for switching between them ****. |