Honda automatic shift designs

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12-10-2009, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by reconranger

This is hillarious! They create these long travel IRS mush box supensions, then find them so unstable that they have to put a sway bars on them to give them SRA-like handling....to make them rideable.

That is true but a IRS even with a sway bar still rides much nicer over rough terrain the any SRA. So you can both corner and not beat your back up.

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12-12-2009, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Garp

Then they put an automotive type 3 speed w/ torque converter on the Rincon. Now they change the hondamatic on the Rancher AT to a new double clutch design with set ratios as opposed to the continueously variable. Was there problems with the hondamatic?

The Hondamatic is assembled inside a clean room in Japan and is not serviceable in the field making it a very expensive transmission.

The autos in both the Rincon and Rancher can be serviced in Honda dealers by their technicians and don't need to be assembled in a clean room making them a more cost effective transmission.

I have an early 2001 Rubicon with 11,000 100% trouble free miles with the Hondamatic transmission.

The greatest ATV transmission ever.

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