You driving veterans ever have bad shifting days?

I've had bad "everything" days...

 

Oh ####, yeah that's happend to me. Try to float gears on a downshift and you forget the jakes are on.

 

Shifting? Sometimes I have trouble steering!

 

I've had days where I have stalled out the truck because I slammed it into the wrong gear.

 

Grind it 'til you find it!

We all have our good/bad shifting and backing days.

 

Not sure if it's just my truck, or if they are all like this, but I don't seem to remember any of the others I've had being this bad.

When I start running in the am and the tranny is cold, it wants to shift real slow. An exaggeration, but it really feels like I almost need to do a 1, 2, 3 count between gears.

Throughout the day, the shifts get faster. I figure that it's the oil in the tranny heating up.

At the end of the day, after 500+ miles, it wants to be really fast. Can get hard to actually move as fast as it sometimes wants to shift.

What kills me are when I hit the highway first thing in the morning and don't need to make a shift (other than maybe just hitting the button, since it's a Super10) for a few hundred miles. Then I hit an off ramp and have no idea of exactly how fast the tranny feels like shifting at that moment. I take a guess and sometimes I am right, other times it will grind a bit or even cause me to miss gears. Takes a few shifts to figure out how it feels like shifting before I get it right again.

 

I find I grind'em when I am getting too tired, and I also have trouble when first using the A/C during the summer (#### fan apparently slows the engine quicker).

 

No, I NEVER scratch a gear..... but sometimes them tranny gremlins will get in there an move the doggone gears on me.

 

Same here, especially in temps under 20f. That oil is like molasses and she needs extra 'count' time between shifts if I float. If I use the clutch, I can shift just fine usually...Once she's warmed up, she runs just fine.

 

Gotta love these cold climates and how they make life difficult.