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Originally Posted by Deltona Couple
I was assuming (incorrectly) that you were meaning more like speedshifting, which doesn't use the clutch between gears.
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Nope, clutchless shifting does indeed beat the hell out of your transmission unless you do it just right.
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and no, it doesn't put stress on the synchos, it uses them as properly designed.
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Double clutching does not use the synchros as designed because the synchros were designed to do automatically what you are doing manually with the double clutching.
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Otherwise we wouldn't need synchros at all!
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Except for first gear we don't NEED synchros any more than we need traction control. They're just really nice to have.
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There are small amounts of wear on the gripping surface of synchros, but again, in my entire career, and after discussing this with another friend of mine who has been doing transmissions for over 20 years, syncros last much longer than you seem to believe. I have seen cars, trucks, and utility vehicles with transmissions having over 200K miles on them, burned out clutches, but the syncros looked as good as new.
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You must not work on many hondas then, because there are PLENTY of late 80's, early 90's civics running around out there with crunching synchros.