Normandin

straight ten, pretty straight forward.




On a 13 speed, there is a range select and a splitter, you split your 4 high gears.

 

No, on a ten speed, you pre-select your range when in 5th gear and then move into 6th, then you stay on the high side and continue through your gears.

On a 13 speed you pre-select your range in 4th gear and once you move into 5th on the high side, you then split each gear thereafter with the splitter on the side of the shifter. you pre-select with the splitter also, it wont split a gear until your foots off the gas. just think of your high side of the range as having two gears, per slot.

And on a 18 speed, your able to split the high and low side of the range.

It's kinda difficult to explain, but if you saw it in person and did it, you would then have a greater understanding of it.

 

Also on a 13 speed you ignore 1st (granny) gear, unless your on a hill fully loaded. So its really a 12 speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6TDcPuWpmc

 

you only use the range select (the switch on the front of the shift knob) when going from low to high range and back down to low, just like on a straight ten.

 

hahaha, I'm just a silly redneck country boy, they would laugh me out of any government position when i walked in wearing a t-shirt, blue jeans, carhart coat, work boots covered in mud.