Another shifting question

Double clutching is not hard...but I think clutches today need a lot less leg pressure to push in than they did years ago. So old timers tend to shift without using the clutch....and call it floating the gears.

Some trucks today still have strong return springs, and it can be tiring to hold the clutch in while at a red light.

I think the difficulty in double clutching is getting the timing down of clutch in, shift to neutral, clutch out, clutch back in, shift to gear, clutch out.....so 6 steps to shift one gear! Times 10 gears is 60 steps to go through all the gears.

Compare that with floating gears, you don't use the clutch at all, except starting from stop.

Which method is less of a pain!

 

Didnt want to get into floating (my perfered method) as the op does not have a cdl yet, but yeah once hes in, float all the way down the road...

 

Have you driven a manual car? Because I have driven many, and the whole horizantal center line is also neutral in all cars.

 

Seeing 4/9 flipped with 5/10 is irking me way more than it should.

 

Ya know i think your right.. that looks goofy

 

Didn't even notice that before, but that's pretty messed up

 

Im used to 5/10 being down...

 

Because it is down!! That, or I've been doing it all wrong this whole time...

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=10+...ved=0ahUKEwiUhu__9KXLAhWDQCYKHQpQAdYQ_AUIBigB
I guess it can be either way

 

What the hell!

 

A old ford tri axel dump i drove had a box pattern 8 speed, but that is worse