My Prime Adventure

So when you guys get back and test out is that it? Or do you go back out with another trainer for a longer period of time?

 

U go thru a TNT phase for 30000 mi with a trainer luck for me my instructor is going to also b my trainer I don't have to take all this stuff out of here once I get mY CDL

 

Thats convienent huh? Well congratulations man. Keep doing good. Do you like it all so far? The training I mean.

 

Yeah I got a good instructor he's patient and doesn't yell or get upset if I grind a gear(mainly going to to 5th this week for some reason) he's also very helpful on d backing which I do 100% of now

 

dude what is it with 5th. seem like my big hang up too. keep it up man your.goal.is right around d corner

 

I know and yours is too but I don't know what's up with 5th

 

Soon yall will have the yellow badges, and can ditch the "Student Driver" badges lol Good luck to yall! Ill be in SPRINGMO sometime this week..... again

 

Yeah I'm ready hopefully we will get a load out of Illinois to Springfield or somewhere close may b I will c u since u didn't make it to Florida

 

When I 1st got into the 10 speeds (I learned on 9 & 13 speeds) I had the same issue with 5th... then I looked up the transmission's specs out of boredom & curiosity one day.

The ratio difference between 4th & 5th is actually a bit different than it is between the rest of the gears in the box... I don't recall off the top of my head the exact difference... but there is one.

Bottom line... I found that I had to be a tad "quicker" with the timing going from 4th to 5th than I did for the other shifts up through the box... not much, maybe 50-75 RPM or so less "drop" between the gears & it would slide right in... try that & see if it works for you.

 

I've noticed that when I'm n 4th as soon as I reach 1200(nothing over) if I shift quickly it will slide ride n sometimes I just skip over it and go right to 6th(d good gear n this truck) if u happen to grind 4th 5th go to 6th and d majority of d time it will go in but it all depends on rpm/speed w/shifting