13 speed splitter problems

What model transmision is it. What year is the truck??
Is it an old RTO.
Is it a newer RTLO. They both shift diffrent. An older RTO , don't like to be preselected. The newer RTLO has to be preselected.

If its a RTO your shifting it wrong. If its a RTLO it could be an issue inside.


Just sayin.

 

Oh man! Lol! Just realized I didn't read the rest of your post. It's a older RTO and your shifting it wrong. Nothing wrong with the tranny at all. The guy you bought it from shifts it fine cause he knows how to shift properly. You noticed he uses his clutch, that's how your supposed to shift!

Double clutch and quit pre selecting and driving like a cowboy and you'll find it will shift like its supposed too.

The older model transmisions actually took a bit of skill to shift smoothly. Not like the newer ones.

You have to make all your splits in a gear not in neutral. As soon as you do a split in neutral the transmision kinda gets lost and you gotta start all over again.

I learned how to drive on this same transmision and I know exactly what's happening. You can't shift them like the newer ones. It just does exactly like your saying. Save yourself the trip to the shop cuz there is nothing wrong with it.


Maybe go on road rangers website and they might have a video how to properly shift. That includes using what the clutch was designed for.

I laugh at all the bobby big riggers out there who think there real professional because they don't need to use the clutch. They can just float the gears, sure I can too. All it takes is that one time it's not quite in and you put the horsepower to it then bam!!! The shock load is tremendous. This is what breaks stuff.
Don't preselect that RTO and use your clutch. You'll be fine.

 

I bet if you took any truck driver that's only been driving for say the last 15 years or so. And stuck them in a older truck with a RTO. 95 percent of them would have the exact same issues your having. Lol!! The newer low inertia transmisions shift a lot nicer and are way more forgiving.

 

Yup! It's funny how everything nowadays is being built to be drivin with no common sence. ECM will make sure you don't screw something up. Auto shifts will make sure the shifts are done at the right time and smoothly. There making the trucks so automated now, that all company's need are steering wheel holders. Lol!
I mean let's look at it. There's roll over protection, antilock breaks, traction controll, stability control, the list goes on and on and on.
If you took these newbie drivers in these automated company trucks, and put them in a older real truck with a good old mechanical engine and maybe a RTO 12513. Stuck them on a mountain pass in the middle of January, I wonder how long they'd make it.

 

10-4 on that.