shifting gears.

[redih55]

My 2011 Ram Mega Cab Dually has a 6 speed manual transmission. When I use it to pull my 30 foot gooseneck flatbed, it's like the trailer is not back there. Lots of torque with this one.

 

[J Hamilton]

Some of our guys at work really struggle with the Fuller-Eaton 10 and can't figure out the Mack super 10. They can barely move our old Mack wih the tri-plex. They cry and whine to get the new one that is auto shift, and I'll gladly let them have it too.

 

[Tractorcedric]

I drive this one in Compound Low

 

[chvet73]

At 73 my wife and I have never had a vehicle with an automatic except the motor home.

 

[Vito]

I own 3 manual shift cars. My two sons drive two of them the other is my fun car. My wife drives manual also.

Vito

 

[showcrop]

(quoted from post at 14:59:34 11/08/23) Sorry to say she has the shift pattern wrong for any semi I have driven. Reverse should be where first is and then 1st where 2nd is and so on. This is true for all the 9,10,13,15,18 speeds I have driven. And the 15 has 2 different patterns if you have the RTLO or the RTXO or something like that. The RTLO is the lever in 5th is up against the dash as it is referred to and the X is a straight pattern like the 9,10,13,15,18 speed is. I've owned the 9,13,15,18 speed in trucks over the last 25 years. All Eaton road ranger transmissions. Stieger has has the same pattern in them as the trucks do. Spicer made some different things for trucks back when.

It is a four wheeler. A small four wheeler. Hey, how about duplex transmission? Are you able to start a loaded truck without using the clutch?

 

[Stephen Newell]

You shouldn't have posted that, it's suppose to be a millennial anti-theft device. The only problem I ever had was trying to teach my wife to drive my Jeep. I never did get through to her to let out on the clutch slowly. I think in the few months she drove the Jeep she bent the clutch plate. It was years before it recovered.

 

[mdm1]

My wife bought a Ford Escort, standard. I tried to help her learn to shift it and gave up. Told her your car go drive it! And she did. Best way to learn. And now she can drive all the tractors.

 

[RedMF40]

I always enjoyed the three-speed column shift vehicles I've owned. Pure utility, not as secksy as floor shift but if you like shifting gears there's a lot of "throw" between them so you get to spend time with your hand on the shifter. Linkage does have a habit of wearing out and binding up, with the possibility of being stuck at a traffic light with a long line of cars behind.

I do my best with double-clutching, never got great at it. Either engine speed too high or too low. But when it slides right in it's like a "Hallelujah moment."

Gerrit

 

[olgentdc]

I taught My 1st wife and All my children to use the clutch ,, My youngest daughter resisted, but when i told her i just wanted her to learn so she could help someone that needed driven somewhere .

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 07:17:25 11/09/23) I always enjoyed the three-speed column shift vehicles I've owned. Pure utility, not as secksy as floor shift but if you like shifting gears there's a lot of "throw" between them so you get to spend time with your hand on the shifter. Linkage does have a habit of wearing out and binding up, with the possibility of being stuck at a traffic light with a long line of cars behind.

I do my best with double-clutching, never got great at it. Either engine speed too high or too low. But when it slides right in it's like a "Hallelujah moment."

Gerrit

My Dad had a 1962 Austin Healey Sprite with the floor shifter in it. I don't remember if it was a 3 speed or 4 speed, probably a 4 speed. Anyway, if one practiced at it and learned the engine sounds, one could shift it without using the clutch.

Now, looking back on that, it was probably not a good thing to do to that transmission, although there was no gear grinding, I got to where I could do it every time. Of course, I never told my Dad about that.

This post was edited by Caryc on 11/09/2023 at 08:31 am.

 

[560Dennis]

bang shift billy app

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 09:31:06 11/09/23) bang shift billy app

Actually I only did it when I had someone new in the car with me just to show them I could do it.

 

[caterpillar guy]

Now get so you can shift them without using the clutch on them. Some will let you and some the synchronizers will not let you shift them with out the clutch.

 

[Caryc]

(quoted from post at 14:31:18 11/09/23) Now get so you can shift them without using the clutch on them. Some will let you and some the synchronizers will not let you shift them with out the clutch.

I also have a 1979 Carrola Deluxe with a five speed on the floor. I've never tried it with that. You see, I've grown up quite a lot since my Dad had the 1962 Sprite.

 

[RedMF40]

My Dad had a 1962 Austin Healey Sprite with the floor shifter in it. I don't remember if it was a 3 speed or 4 speed, probably a 4 speed. Anyway, if one practiced at it and learned the engine sounds, one could shift it without using the clutch.

"Speed-shifting." I've done it a few times by accident because I reached for the shifter before clutching and was surprised at how easily it slipped into gear. Always think, "Why can't I do that every time?"

BTW I nearly blew up a '69 Triumph Spitfire I had when I tried double-clutching to downshift. Lost reverse in that experiment. Sold the car with a good spare transmission.

Gerrit