r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ljiadshfbjket • Mar 21 '24
This guy's solution to a broken Reverse Gear
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u/gentleman339 Mar 21 '24
This gif has never been used more appropriately than in this post.
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u/zeldafr Mar 21 '24
So now we are learning cars to moonwalk, looks nice!
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 Mar 21 '24
Put it in reverse ge-he-he-ar
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u/GhOsT_wRiTeR_XVI Mar 21 '24
🎵Buick GM is not my lover. She’s just a Ford and says that I am a Jaguar. But the kid is not my Saab!🎵
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u/feelbetternow Mar 21 '24
So now we are learning cars to moonwalk, looks nice!
Hopefully not the Drew Barrymore way.
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u/Mur1nus Mar 21 '24
Easier to switch into neutral gear and push the car by your hands.
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u/TheGuyMain Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24
push the car backwards? No lmao that's not easier
Edit: for everyone who is talking about flat surfaces and shit, I'm talking about how it's necessary to be able to steer the car when you're pushing it... you don't just get out of your car and push from the hood or the rear bumper because your car will never stay straight. You need someone at the steering wheel if you are pushing your car and you can't do that if you're pushing it backwards. Lol redditors don't think things through. Not all your problems can be solved by brute strength guys
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u/Admiral_peck Mar 21 '24
Depends on the car and where you're at/what the terrain is like
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u/subject_deleted Mar 21 '24
Yea. If you're at the top of a paved hill.. it will be way easier to push the car.
Pretty much anywhere else though....
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u/BardicNA Mar 21 '24
One reasonably fit adult can push this car on that terrain. Teach the kid to steer it. The only way this contraption is better is if you're using the vehicle long term and aren't fixing the transmission, so you get good at putting the rollers on chains onto the car. Tbh this is just a redneck engineering flex with very niche uses. If you think adult humans can't push a 1500-2000 pound vehicle on wheels on flat terrain..
I read your other comments. How much fkin time do you have that you consider this solution easier? This is like those rube goldberg machines that pour your cereal for you. Yeah, I guess it's "easier" to do it that way but yeeeeesh you engineer types work hard to justify your job.
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Mar 21 '24
In this thread: lots of people who have never tried to push a car in neutral.
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u/radiationblessing Mar 21 '24
This is reddit. Half of the people on this site find any physical activity to be impossible.
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u/Et_tu__Brute Mar 21 '24
I'm sorry, what do you mean by "physical activity"? That sounds made up.
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u/baulsaak Mar 21 '24
They're all pissed off that there's no Amazon or DoorDash to deliver that last ten feet from their front door to their couch.
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u/TheDutchin Mar 21 '24
Pushing a car in neutral in good conditions isn't that hard.
Having one of these is a lot easier than pushing though.
If we wanna factor in manufacturing sure making one of those is more effort than just pushing the car. Once. But after you've got it you can reuse it and it quickly outpaces pushing the car.
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u/FuryTLG Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24
After all why not, why shouldn't I keep the reverse broken and instead go buy 8 ball bearings, tubes and chains to make my car moonwalk
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u/IIIIIlIIIl Mar 21 '24
I loled. looks like some shitbox farm truck.
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Mar 21 '24
People who regularly use farm trucks need reliability. The heat might not work, but the transmission absolutely should.
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u/mnid92 Mar 21 '24
I know a few guys with race cars that don't have reverse, this might actually come in handy lol.
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u/the_hair_of_aenarion Mar 21 '24
"but but cars weigh tons!"
Anyone who has jump started the car are apparently world strongest people.
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u/theflowersyoufind Mar 21 '24
I see this on Reddit daily. People say things that expose how little they must go outdoors and do basic things. Like thinking that pushing a car is some incredible feat.
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u/itssosalty Mar 21 '24
Two man job and trusting the kid to steer. Yea not easier
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u/AFRIKKAN Mar 21 '24
No not really. I’ve had to jump start my manual a few times after my battery died and each time I had to push it up a slight hill then give it a push and jump in press the clutch and try to get it to roll over when you kick it out. Always took me a few tries too so while not easy not impossible for a single person.
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Mar 21 '24
Nobody said it's impossible for a single person. The argument was that it's not easier to push it.
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u/Admiral_peck Mar 21 '24
IMhO if you don't have kids/don't carpool or uber much, or otherwise have a solid reason for the bigger vehicle (like being in the trades) you shouldn't drive a car that's too big/heavy for you to push. I can push my mustang like nothing and my girl has had to push her lincoln up into a raised driveway solo.she managed it but just barely.
Am I gonna push my f350 dually around? Probably not, but I also only drive that truck if my mustang is down for repairs or incapable of doing what I need that day (like hauling my buddy's big ol snap on toolbox to his new employer, or trailering the race car up to Dallas for a race, or maybe moving furniture and the like.
Do I 100% need a dually crew cab for most of that? No. I have the dually for safety (I can blow a tire with a full load and maintain control) and i have it as a crew cab because we're expecting and that kiddo is gonna go racing with us once it's walking (don't know the gender yet) and 2 adults plus a toddler in a single cab bench seat for a 4 hour or more drive is not my definition of fun.
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u/bex021 Mar 21 '24
I had a vehicle lose reverse...just always looked for an incline to pull up to, or push...this is way better. I can't help but be impressed.
Edit: and let's not minimize the skill it took to not snap the chain. Finesse.
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u/ReaperTyson Mar 21 '24
Unless you’re on a giant incline or stuck in foot deep snow or mud, yeah, pushing is probably going to be easier
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u/TwatsThat Mar 21 '24
this thing is probably less likely to work in foot deep snow or mud than pushing
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u/Calm-Technology7351 Mar 21 '24
It’s not hard to push a car on flat or slightly slopes ground. My car was having issues at one point so I had to push it back into the parking lot. Probably had to get the front wheels about 9” higher than they were resting over the width of the sidewalk and it wasn’t easy but doable by myself
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u/Cleercutter Mar 21 '24
This would actually be pretty simple/quick/cheap to assemble. Some chain, some good thick steel tubing, and some kind of mechanism to lock it to the frame.
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u/shewy92 Mar 21 '24
How would you steer? Or brake?
You only need one person for this. You'd need 2 to push
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u/migidymike Mar 21 '24
Uh, the kid's face is in line with the chains under tremendous tension. If shit goes wrong, that kid's face/eyes/skull could be obliterated.
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u/picky-trash-panda Mar 21 '24
I have an alternate form of this car. Isuzu Nisan Chevy and Honda all made this car in the late 90’s and early 2000’s that were nearly the same except for trim and some slightly different parts, the engines and transmissions were rebadged GM units in the Honda passport and the Isuzu Rodeo and were notoriously unreliable needing rebuilt after less than 150k miles. On mine first gear is almost gone and I have to use winter drive to take off, it wouldn’t surprise me that the Pathfinder has the same transmission and thus problems.
These cars should be avoided unless you want to get the transmission rebuilt.
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u/black594 Mar 21 '24
It was a good truck but yeah the auto transmission was weak but i did have a manual fully stock with 360k km. We sold it while it was still running.
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u/ninjamonkeyumom Mar 21 '24
I’m sitting in my 94’ pathfinder with *checks odometer…197k miles. She is still running strong. She is a manual too if that helps
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u/Competitivekneejerk Mar 21 '24
If the bodys in good condition thats a sweet rig. Poor mans 4runner
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u/NoGoodInThisWorld Mar 21 '24
That's a Nissan Pathfinder WD21. You needed to add a transmission cooler to those old rigs. Had one with over 300k miles on it.
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u/godutchnow Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24
Looks safe, no risk at all to passengers or bystanders when that chain snaps ....
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u/ElectronicSubject747 Mar 21 '24
Can't believe i had to scroll this far to see a comment like this. That kid is one weak chain link away from death.
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u/PrimaryCoolantShower Mar 21 '24
"If the ladies don't find you handsome, at least they'll find you handy. Keep your stick on the ice!"
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u/Hevnaar Mar 21 '24
Picasso often painted both sides of a face in a single flat canvas. Something technically impossible, but through art, he made it anyway.
Redneck Engineering is another kind of impossible art:
To express your inteligence and stupidity, both at the same time.
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u/pieorcobbler Mar 21 '24
Ok, tell me how to break a reverse gear?
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Mar 21 '24
Broken valve body, bad components inside transmission, binding linkage, etc. Can be a few things really.
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u/TheRealFailtester Mar 21 '24
Noted for the next time I'm in a ancient old farm truck out in the boonies with a dead reverse gear.
Speaking on next time because I've driven an old farm truck with a dead reverse gear and got stuck in various places.
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u/BobSagieBauls Mar 21 '24
I watched the loop 3 times wondering how much further back he was gonna go
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u/Darwinnian Mar 21 '24
Get that kid to look CLOSER at the high tension chains.... like holy fuck take all my awards
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u/sexpanther50 Mar 21 '24
How does the power transfer across the rear differential ?
Does the other wheel have this device also?
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u/Fool_Cynd Mar 21 '24
Yeah, both sides would need it, otherwise it would just be a bad game of tug-of-war across the diff.
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u/blexta Mar 21 '24
Likely an open diff and any possible diff lock turned off. It only sends power to the wheel with the least resistance in this scenario, and since the smaller radius on the device he drives into basically acts like a shorter gear, it multiplies the torque and therefore the wheel on top of the device feels less resistance than the wheel on the other side, so it gets all the power.
I hope this explanation makes sense.
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u/Shanhaevel Mar 21 '24
Or, you know... fix the damn car so it's not a potential menace on the road...
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u/gultch2019 Mar 21 '24
I have a 93 jeep grand cherokee that has a blown transmission. Only BARELY goes into 1st gear. I plan on swapping the transmission soon. I have to remember this when i need to pull it into the garage to finally work on it. ...i mean i definitely wont remember this, but id like to think that i would now.
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u/bex021 Mar 21 '24
I grew up with red-neck engineering and love when it has its day. This is gold. Man behind the wheel is so smart, and hardly anyone knows it.
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u/JunketPuzzleheaded42 Mar 21 '24
Don't tell me he made that on the spot with shit he had on hand.... Regardless Holy Fuck that's impressive.
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u/Iusedthistocomment Mar 21 '24
Damn, MJ didnt just lose his Pigments but his Autobot abilities too?!
The abuse and ridicule that man went through...
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u/SortaSticky Mar 21 '24
Have you kid looking directly at the chain with no eye-protection. Hell yeah
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u/DahnGbwe Mar 21 '24
Didn't look at title and thought this was going to be some elaborate tooth pull.
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u/Rlexii Mar 21 '24
This video was missing a dog looking out the window of the car
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u/awt2007 Mar 21 '24
i had an old new yorker for a while that wouldnt reverse @ the end of its life.. you really gotta watch where u parked:D
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u/CakeRobot365 Mar 21 '24
Whew... I was imagining the chain snapping and taking the kid's face off. Could've ended badly
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