Eaton fuller FRO-16210B questions

Somebody probably just changed the shift bar assembly from the H pattern to the U pattern. Its impossible for gears to switch places like that without changing the gears inside or changing the shift bar housing.

 

Maybe little midgets snuck under the truck in the middle of the night and swapped out the trans??

 

I think that if 10th gear is forward toward the dash, then the transmission is an overdrive.

In 9th gear, toward sleeper, the trans would be in straight through mode, direct drive, from the front shaft to the yoke.

At least that's the way it works on my RTO 14715. I believe the "O" in the RTO is for overdrive.

 

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I don't believe that the FRO series transmissions share a top plate with the older transmissions that would allow high to be against the dash.

It sounds as though it has had the transmission changed, crawl under the truck and see if the tag is on it still.

 

Maybe somebody flipped the gears to make it a double Overdrive.

I'm sort of kidding. People used to flip them on the older Transmissions. I wonder if that's possible on a newer transmission.

Edit:
that probably doesn't make sense because the shifter itself is made to retain the normal gear pattern.

 

People would flip a non overdrive main box to make it into an OD, doing that to an OD main box doesn't gain anything.

The double over moniker comes from there actually being two OD gears in the trans, one in the main and one in the auxiliary, so if you ever hear of someone talking about a double over 9/10/15 speed, they are full of crap.

 

How about that? I meant to say overdrive and I said double...

Brain fart....