How to shift a 7 speed freightliner

If you can get away with that few ratios, it is a very good on fuel mileage . The back box wastes fuel, but most of us need it thou.

 

And no jakes. Triples over gov. camp to portland.

 

looks to be very akward 2nd and 3rd both being on the bottom. usually the gear pattern is setup so its a smooth motion, with 2nd being on the bottom and 3rd on the top. i think every truck i drove was like that. 10 speed, 8LL, 9 speed.

 

Same principle just a different amount of gears to shift. All gear boxes are different some you got to rev up high some low, you get the feel for it when get in and drive and away you go.

 

Up against the dash. Back in the day weren't od trans like that before the x plate or whatever. Before my dad dropped in a 13 he had rockwell 9 up against the dash

 

Knuckle buster into the dash. Och!

 

There is no splitter on a straight 7 transmission.

 

I had that 6+1 in my 4900 with a 250 hp DT466E with 5.38 rears. Its a mechanics truck never over 26K. Had to beg it to move in low. An RTO6613 and a set of 3.73's cured that ####. It will try to climb a wall now in deep reduction

 

Yeah, never heard of any Eaton tranny like that. Makes NO sense at all.