A transmission block sensor is out on a 96 Dodge Grand Caravan. What is this? Is it serious? Vehicle still runs, but won‘t shift into overdrive. Will more transmission problems happen if this is not fixed, or will overdrive just not work?
Buy the Motorcycle of Course. Cheaper everything. Gas , oil, insurance, maintenance. Naming a Harley and a Honda in the same sentence ? They are Light years apart. For $2500 you wont find a Harley that will make it out of the driveway unless you start on a hill. The biggest differance between the two bikes is Honda's carry their oil on the inside. For $2500 there is a pleathora of excellent running 10-30 year old Hondas. I think comfort is priority one ( post price) so sit on a few. If the manufacturer s name ends with a vowel you should be rewarded reliability.
Get the motorcycle, bud. Maybe a Kawasaki Vulcan 500 or Honda Shadow 750?
Cheap car. Can't carry a lot of cargo on a motorcycle, so when you go grocery shopping, you'll need a car. Motorcycle insurance is NOT more. My car insurance: $1100/year. My motorcycle insurance: $75/year. My motorcycle has about 86,000 miles on it. Edit: Yeah, some things about motorcycles are more expensive. Motorcycle battery costs twice as much as a car's, and lasts about one third as long. Motorcycle tires cost a lot more than a car's (I'm talking it cost more to put two tires on my motorcycle than four on my car), and last about one third as long.
A method for operating a transmission system comprising: operating a gearshift; rotating a transmission manual shaft in response to operating said gearshift; generating a pulse-width modulated signal from a non-contacting transmission range sensor, said pulse-width modulated percent duty cycle signal varying in a proportional relationship to an angular position of said manual shaft gearshift relative to gearshift detent valleys and detent peaks; and receiving said pulse-width modulated percent duty cycle signal in a powertrain control module; determining, in said powertrain control module, said angular position of said gearshift by comparing said pulse-width modulated percent duty cycle signal to discrete duty cycle values preset in said powertrain control module; and operating vehicle functions in response to signals from said powertrain control module; operating a powertrain control module in response to said pulse-width modulated signal.
