I am buying a truck from a friend of mine who is kind of a doofus. Now, I watched him drive the truck and he does not grind his gears. But, he was calling it a 13 speed the whole time when after driving it across town I believe it to be a 15 speed.
It appears to be a 10 speed with a H-L splitter that works for the high range gears (6-10).
The way my friend would shift it was he would go straight from 5 to 7L, 7H, 8H, 9H, 10H. So I guess the way he used it it was a 13 speed because he was skipping over 6 all together. When downshifting, he would sometimes downshift to 6H on a curve. But he was calling that "extra gear" you can shift down to on a curve. But he said he never used 6L because the rpms were weird.
I found what he was talking about because 6L appeared to be a lower gear than 5. I guess, that could be viewed as a gear you can shift down to in traffic without having to keep using the splitter to go back and forth from 5 to 6.
I guess my question is, are the L gears meant to be used regularly that way? It seems when cruising along in 10H, 10L is a nice gear to have as a passing gear or uphill gear to maintain speed, rather than going down to 9. But is it meant to be used that way?
15 speed Eaton??
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by Dedrick, Nov 20, 2019.
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