With your foot on the brake pedal and stick on the lowest gear, let go of the clutch very slowly until you feel the truck trying to move forward. Then let go of the brake and the clutch.
It’s nice how automatic trucks hold the brakes on an uphill so you don’t roll back.
having trouble downshifting 10 speed in the lower gears
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Yea a slight tap and float her in there
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Make a mental note of the RPM and MPH at the top of each gear. At that speed and that RPM the trans will float into gear. Remember you MPH is decreasing while you are shifting.
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Some hills she will do it for you but not have enough to try the next gear. You stay in that one.
That would be one situation there is a trolley bar under the steering wheel for trailer brakes. Lock them, release and start adding fuel and clutch in the time before your trailer releases all the way she should be pulling by then.
DO NOT whatever you do dump that clutch and slam into your drive train, you will take the bite out of the transmission spline gear. The one that transfers to your driveshaft. Very expensive. -
When I was blaster every now an then a dozer or end dump or something would make me have to stop on the ramp comming out of the pit. An some times I'd get lucky an get it witch only happened a cpl times. other times I cheated an set parking break
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When climbing a hill I figured around 1300 is when the power band would soon drop off the cliff so drop the gear and grab the next hopefully In the 1700 range.
10 speeds suck climbing real grades without enough power.
Too large of a ratio between 10 and 9 and 9and 8 not so bad after that.
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