Downshifting with clutch

I'm not experienced yet by any means but i learned in school on a 10 also but just put it in neutral then rev it and clutch it back in. I know all trucks are different but maybe try revving it high and if that doesnt work rev it less. just my 2 cents i'm sure the more experienced guys will chime in...good luck

 

Yup.
Try it high, try it low...
Then try in the middle.

If that doesn't work, a little more muscle should do the trick.
A little heavy grinding, these trannies like.

 

When I first started driving I drove an ole' Shaker with a 9 speed....there was no shifting it with out some kind of noise....made me feel like an idiot until I rode with the owner one day (a 30 year veteran with 3,000,000 miles) and he made more noise with it than a rock band on tour, I never worried about it after that....put a good 300,000 miles on that truck.

 

Stop revving the heck out of the engine when downshifting.


Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

 

The transmission oil protects the gears against grinding - to a certain point.
Apply too much force too often, and the tranny will turn to dust.

But light pressure with light grinding shouldn't do that.
After all, these things were designed for abuse in mind.

 

You need to figure out what split the trans has. The truck that I learned in had a 400 split. So if i pulled it into neutral at 1000, to downshift I needed to rev to 1400 for it to slide in.

 

And yet, the 'split' is different for each gear.

 

Tach watching leads to gear grinding....just slow down and listen to the engine.

 

I disagree. Glance at the tach, so you can see at about what RPM allows the the stick to slide in. Do that a couple of times and also listen to the engine. Then you'll know what the engine sounds like at the correct RPM. After that you shouldn't need to look at the tach.