As the title says, I know that different shifts mean different gear sizes bein used, but I don’t understand why it makes you unable to start moving the car. I have been able to start a couple of cars on the 2nd shift as an experiment and I understand that I could damage the car and I do it just once for testing purposes but I don’t understand why I cannot do so on other shifts. To clarify, I mean start as in start moving the car and not just turning the car on. Thanks
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In a roundabout way, a transmission is like a system of levers. A long lever lets you move a heavy object. A low gear is like a long lever. A higher gear is like a shorter lever. And while it is able to spin faster, it does not give you as much “leverage,” (which is, in this case, Torque.) Which means that, depending on the engine, it might not have enough mechanical advantage to move the weight of the vehicle.
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