Downshifting help

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  1. BigBob410

    BigBob410 Road Train Member

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    I personally couldn’t tell you exactly at what rpm I shift. You get to know your ride and the sound. There is way to many other things going on around the truck to be staring at the tach.
     
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  3. Andrewcalf999

    Andrewcalf999 Bobtail Member

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    thanks for the help! Started to get better sometimes after I put it neutral and rev it’s grinds the gear
     
  4. Powder Joints

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    Here you go I will help you. Use the clutch, floating the trans follows the same pattern as properly double clutching. So learn to shift properly using the clutch, and the rest will follow.
     
  5. Cattleman84

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    Dont think of it as revving... You just want to ease the rpms up nice and easy... Not like a race car on the green light. Once you get the hang of it, it will become a fluid motion that you bring the rpms up AS YOU MOVE the shifter THROUGH neutral and into the lower gear.... The shifter will never stop out of a gear once you become really proficient.
     
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    Yea I tell pretend your stepping on your nutz, nice and easy.
     
  7. Cattleman84

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    ROFLMAO!!!... That is a pretty acurate way of describing it.
     
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  8. BigBob410

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    I appreciate it but after 32 years I think I got it....
     
  9. blairandgretchen

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    Sheesh. Rookie! :)
     
  10. BigBob410

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    I know it!! It’s amazing I can get from A to B without tearing everything up but we manage somehow!o_O:D
     
  11. Andrewcalf999

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    So from 8h I want to go to 4 what speed & rpm should I start downshifting
     
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