That method revolves around "the 5's"
15mph - 1+5 = 6th gear
55mph - 5 + 5 = 10th gear
What I was taught is that when shifting at the "5's" you'd bring the RPMs up to about the middle of your range, our trucks are have rev limiters setting the max at 1500, so we'd bring the RPMs to 12-1300. 52 in our trucks would be 15-1600RPM in 9th or about 1000 in 10th.
From there you're taught to basically go high RPM above the '5' and low RPM below it.. so 49MPH would be high 9th gear (14-1500RPM) while 41 would be lower RPM 1100ish.
The purpose being to help students figure out how to downshift when they're still relatively new. This particular method never worked for me, it didn't help me out one bit. I learned the hard way, lots of grinded gears, lots of swearing, stalled it a few times too many.. a few hours of heavy traffic (95 is a great place for this) is what did it for me. I was pretty awful until I started playing in traffic.
How to recover from lost gears?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by mpossoff, Jun 13, 2014.
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