Screwed up shift big

Hope you do not get the firing squad!

 

it'll be fine, these things will take a #### ton of abuse and keep on running.

 

If you flipped the range selector (the flat paddle on the front of the knob) no big deal at all. There's a lockout valve on the side of the transmission that prevents the range shift from happening until the gear shift is placed in neutral. If that's what you did, party on.

 

If the truck still drives like nothing happened...then nothing happened. You will get some pretty strange looks if you go in and report that your truck is driving fine.

 

Don't ask don't tell!

 

It is not possible to screw up these transmissions on the account of a few errors. They can take a hell of a lot of abuse from a dimwit driver day in and day out. You thinking you messed up the trans on the account of one shift error is over thinking big time!!. I shift an 18 speed all day long for 12 hours a day and sometimes 14. I don’t see the highway at all. I’m local so I’m constantly shifting. I get fatigued by the end of the day. By the end of the day I get lazy and sometimes I screw up a few split shifts becuase my mind is fatigued. The truck is mine and I’m very cautious and mindful how I drive it. It would take a long time to do damage in what you did. It would take months of someone doing what you did to cause harm. Like I said, if you didn’t split right and you hear that grinding sound, leave the splitter where it’s at, pop the truck into neutral and find the right gear you supposed to be in. If you are a good driver, this takes less than 2 seconds but feels like a mili second. No harm done and no damage done

 

i drive with an eaton 18 everyday. i preselect sometimes before im ready to make a shift, but know i will make the shift soon and never though anything about it. i never heard any grinding noises, i guess i will wait to preselect right before im ready to shift. i actually can usually shift it like a dream, without any grinding noises.

i still use a clutch, i never really mastered the art of floating..... if i try to float i grind so i use the clutch but only a light touch on the clutch. the truck i am driving is an old, worn out 2006 peterbilt 386 with 704K on it.... C15 acert. its not a bad truck but the engine is tired and has a fair amount of blowby. milk loads are heavy and not very easy on a truck.