Automatic Transmission Drivers

[fil]

To put it into perspective for you, every time you shift from neutral into drive the forward clutch pack in the trans performs the same operation as the hi/rev clutch pack when your trans shifts from 2nd to 3rd. The only difference is the input shaft is "free wheeling" when the fwd clutch applies and stops the shaft transferring the movement to the TC. The heat generated in the TC at idle with the trans in drive is not of any concern. If you can wear out the fwd clutch pack by doing this I'd say you have bigger issues.

[Jimmyb]

I mainly do it in my V8 Premier, but never actually do it in the XJ.

[Shafus]

New autos just leave in drive they are made to do it, I shift to neutral in my cj7 at lights but that's just cause its a 350 chev an t700 just keeps a bit cooler.

[tassiecj6]

Originally Posted by Shafus

New autos just leave in drive they are made to do it, I shift to neutral in my cj7 at lights but that's just cause its a 350 chev an t700 just keeps a bit cooler.

I do the same with my 308 with T400 CJ7 !

[Wazza D]

Doesn't matter if it is the later model transmissions or not.
The old Trimatic, Selectamatic or any of the other Borg Warner transmissions or the like, selecting neutral when stopped at intersections etc, was never a driving instruction from a manufacturer or instructor as far as I am aware.
If it was, it was ignored with no known adverse effects to the transmission.
Anyone of you who have driven some of these old clunkers, especially things like the old Selectamatic, would have found this to be a bit of a clunky, clacky and very annoying mission in itself. You would soon give it up.