another dumb shifting question: differences between trucks.

And that's why god made mechanics.

 

Lol. I'm not joking. I haven't be able to shift anything with an International engine in it. No idea why. Never spent enough time in one to get better at it.

 

Trucks are like women. No two kiss alike.

 

Oh, how I hate when the engine fan kicks on halfway through the shift and drops the RPM just enough for me to miss it. UGH.

When I am running the AC now, I know that it could come on at any time and hold RPM's before shifting in low range longer before going for it, just in case the fan wants to come on.

 

The worst trucks I've ever floated are the Prostars with their bent forward shift arm. I've never drove cab overs or anything but I assume that's the closest you could get to one in a conventional in terms of shifting. Can't feel anything in the trans

 

I disagree on the mack statement. Unless your talkn about them old macks have a 500 rpm drop. The mack i drive now has an eaton fuller and its a 400 rpm drop lik any other modern day truck.

 

Shifting is all about learning to tap you feet to the sound of the mowtown beat like sitting in your pete!

 

I've always wondered this myself...why different brands of trucks have different feeling shifters and transmissions even though most of them use the same type of Eaton Fuller transmission. There has to be something else going on with the way the truck is built.

 

They're all a pain in the ### though. That's a universal constant.