Doh! moment

[combat32]

Anybody else here ever put your transfer in low, forget about it, then take off down the road and wonder why you can't get over 25mph in 5th?

I actually drove deuces in the Army, I must be gettin old,

 

[cornrichard]

That is no fun. Even less fun is pulling the hand throttle instead of the fuel shut off when you get home after dark. I always throw the master switch and then shut off the engine. Pull the wrong lever and instant panic.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Believe it or not, we had a member that drove a truck home from GL in low range. What made it even better was that this was not his first truck. I will not name names.

 

[velociT]

Even less fun is pulling the hand throttle instead of the fuel shut off when you get home after dark.

 

[Josh]

Believe it or not, we had a member that drove a truck home from GL in low range. What made it even better was that this was not his first truck. I will not name names.

Wow... How far did he go?

 

[bassetdeuce]

That is no fun. Even less fun is pulling the hand throttle instead of the fuel shut off when you get home after dark. I always throw the master switch and then shut off the engine. Pull the wrong lever and instant panic.

Quite a few of us have done it. Even fewer admit it.

 

[bassetdeuce]

Driving off with the e-brake on is another classic. Usually it takes about a quarter mile for the "doh!" to kick in. Hey, whats that I smell?

 

[Stretch44875]

No. But have had the lever drop to neutral before, took a couple min to figure out why the truck wouldn't move.

 

[hndrsonj]

Believe it or not, we had a member that drove a truck home from GL in low range. What made it even better was that this was not his first truck. I will not name names.

Come on Gimp who was it?????

 

[gunboy1656]

Heck, I'll admit to running with my truck in low. The day mine came home, I didnt look to see what position it was in (checked everything else out on it) was heading down the road cursing up a storm. when I got into my parking lot I realized it. Total trip in low..just over a mile.

It had only been 13 years since I drove one.

 

[doghead]

Come on Gimp who was it?????

I'll tell you this, we called him LR or Low Range in chat for a long time!

 

[4x4 Forever]

Er, well, how about pulling onto I-35 in mid afternoon traffic. Went to pick up my first deuce and brought my Chief Engineer along. and let him take the first half of the trip. He had 8 years in a deuce and tanks......Dont think I need to say more....

Bunch of ticked off people....also in a construction site...

 

[Bighurt]

Driving off with the e-brake on is another classic. Usually it takes about a quarter mile for the "doh!" to kick in. Hey, whats that I smell?

I'll admit to that one...

 

[AceHigh]

More than once I have found myself in the left turn lane with the flasher still saying I am making a right turn.

I think I am too old to remember to cancel the signal manually.

Of course I have never made any of the other mistakes above.

 

[Bighurt]

More than once I have found myself in the left turn lane with the flasher still saying I am making a right turn.

That's any easy fix, I stopped using turn signals years ago...

 

[RAYZER]

how about driving around with light switch in off poss? No brake lights or turn sig!

 

[srodocker]

i've done the ebrake thing more the once...

 

[hklvette]

i've left the e-brake on once. never did it again. also have driven down the road with the light switch turned off.

 

[jimm1009]

Me too...when I went to Pineville, LA to pick up my first one and I had not driven a deuce in 22 years. I drove two miles or so on country roads to the first gas station and was cursing too.

That little instruction plate right in the front of the steering wheel area there just did not mean a thing as I was so excited after doing my PMs for 2 hours and getting off base, well what can I say. I too initially failed in my driver duties.

jimm1009

PS: If that is the worst thing that we do then I thnk that we are doing pretty dag-gone good.

 

[markmontana]

I took off from Ft McCoy in my -A3 in low. It was my first time driving an A3, and I knew it would be slow, but 25 down the highway was freakin' me out. If you've been on that road, you know there is no room to pull off for about a mile, and I had traffic lined up behind me. I thought- what a piece of crap truck!!! What a relief when I saw that lever down on the floor...

Of course I can rationalize and say I did it to get the tranny warmed up and check out low range....