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Old 02-13-2013, 03:01 PM
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My understanding the gears are straight cut as opposed to helical. Yet more durable, they can be noisy and downshifting a bit rough. Double-clutching on a downshift would bring the RPM on par with the gear's speed at that moment. Upshifting is not so dramatic in terms of matching the speed.
Aaah, straight-cut! The reverse gear in our Corolla is straight-cut, and it's definitely louder than the forward gears. Darn. Did all the gears make the same noise, or are some of them helical-cut?
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