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You do raise a very valid safety issue. Especially with the unknown mechanical status of items like detentes, shift rails and worn fork assemblies. Looks like a good time to put aside an old practice. Safety should be number 1.

I will concede that was the main reason that I never owned a personal vehicle with a manual, until the deuce. After spending all day doing that the last thing I wanted to see when I got in my pickup was a shifter.

When I first started driving “Big” trucks we had 5-4 twin sticks (B63 Mack) and a more seasoned driver gave me a nice tip. When you start the truck in cold weather leave the aux shifter in neutral and the main box in second while you do you pretrip. This will let the 90W tranny oil warm a...