18 speed shifting questions

For what it's worth, I've been driving 13 and 18 speeds since I've been driving. Here's my recommendations:
1: No need to do that. Move the splitter and let off the throttle to up shift. RPM's will come down and it catches the next gear. Just don't step back on the throttle to quickly or you'll wind it to the moon. Trust me on this one. For downshifting, move the splitter and blip the throttle. Same thing, it'll catch the gear.
2: Personal preference on this one. I don't clutch these and have never managed to rip out my tranny. I have a friend who clutches all those shifts and he's been driving as long as me. Six and one galf dozen or the other.
3: ALWAYS PRESELECT ALL RANGE AND SPLITTER SHIFTS! Always. No, you don't want to be flailing around with the splitters in neutral when in motion. Bad stuff will happen eventually.
Hope this helps. Good luck.

 

The way I was taught and still do you take it out of the hole and then move the splitter and then put it back into the next gear.

 

basically,an 18 speed or a 13 speed for that matter,is nothing but a 10 speed with more gears.start in the low range,then at what,6th gear,start splitting. no need to get discombobulated over nothing. no need to trip as an 18 speed is just another transmission.

look on the bright side.your company would not put you in it if they think you could not handle it plus it is not an automatic. just drive it and acclimate yoursel to it.no big deal.you are acting like a true newb. do not do that in front of your new employer.

 

I wouldn't recommend doing that. First it is a huge waste of time and energy on the driver's part-- the whole idea is to take the truck from a two stick situation and make it into a one stick with Easy push buttons. Second may be causing wear where it wouldn't get wear doing it the right way. Third going down hill and downshifting, BAD idea to take it out of gear to split down- what if you couldn't get it back in?

OP-- time to split up?-- like 1400 RPM or so, just split up and let off the throttle one time.

downshifting-- get the RPMs down say 1200 or so (have to experiment) then pull the splittler back and throttle up one time. Keep the big stick in the hole upsplitting and downsplitting. Controlled by throttle. I had my 9 speed upgraded to 13 speed 3.5 years ago, no problems doing it this way and I was basically self taught. If I were to hire someone to drive my truck, they would do it my way or I would not hire them.

 

1-- where is the info from Eaton Fuller recommending pulling stick out of the hole for splitting? I have seen a guy doing that on youtube just figured he was told to do that by some old dumb bass fisherman.

2-- no need to clutch, just move the splitter at the right RPM range that you like then bump or let off the throttle it will automatically go into the proper split gear.

3-- yes pre-select from 7H to 8L just be very very careful not to let off throttle from 7H to 7L before your shift to 8L. Let's say you're at 1400 RPMs 7H and slide it back to 7L and let off throttle all kinds of nasty noises will come up from the floor. Have to be very careful with those mistakes and learn how to recover from it. Probably the quickest best way is to throw the stick in neutral. This is why it is important to perfect your splitting on flat ground before you hit the hills.

 

I've never seen a video where they shift into neutral just to split. Or even clutched. Everything I've seen or been taught was basically you split like you float a full gear, all throttle control. Pre-selecting is important of course like others have said. Maybe if you don't then you need to be in neutral in order to get into the next gear. But if you pre-select all splits/range changes then I don't see the problem. *shrug*

 

I too haven't seen the video where Eaton recommends that. The website told me to split then immediately single clutch IIRC.

 

Here is a video from Eaton showing to single clutch the splits: