Floating the gears question.

Coasting is being out of gear and the momentum is carrying the vehicle.

Floating is basically shifting without using the clutch. In school you will double clutch because that is what the state wants you to do.

Once you get on your own you will do what your comfortable with. The transmissions in these big trucks are un-synchronized meaning you have to match the road speed to the transmission speed to the engine speed.

Any other questions feel free to ask. By the way, I would NOT recommend floating gears in a passenger car or pickup.

Ethan

 

you can't float gears in a car.lol they have synchro's.

 

when i went back for a refresher i had to force myself to double clutch, its easy IMO

 

That's part of the reason you can get 2 million miles out of a transmission. The syncro's are one of the first things to go in a car transmission. It's one less thing to go wrong.

 

also i wouldn,t coast in a big tractor trailer. lol

 

The reason their like that is because of you try to take a synchronized transmission and apply the amount of torque these engines put out it would rip the crap out of the synchros.

 

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bad idea

 

Actually it works...mused to do it in an Suzuki 5spd. Floating is much easier in a truck though.