Shifting

Goose the throttle works in down shift, but wont work in upshift. Unless you decided to abandon the upshift and go down one to catch er slowing down on you...

 

Ya your not doing it fast enough. Clutch neutral Clutch gear

 

AH.

No no no. Clutch, heartbeat or two shift get off clutch so you can apply power.

Staying in clutch after shift means no power, no go. Slowing down time....

 

If youre trying to shift without releasing clutch, it's not going to work.

That is what you do driving a car. A car you can hold clutch in shift and let it out. Those transmissions are in syncronious speed with the engine where possible as you shift. The engineering has been ... dumbed down so that most people can just shift to this gear or that gear.

Trucks are not syncronized. If you took a big truck out of gear, that transmission is going to maintain a certain spin that is not matching the engine, it is your job to match it which is why you double clutch.

Floating and so on are small tricks that are a acquired when you grow enough feathers and become skilled enough to do it. Done right everything is matched just so and the truck does not realized what is going on up there. But it has to be done just so. It's a thing of beauty.

 

I say this. Shift that thing and do it well. You will be tested by the DMV one of these days. If your shifting is adequate there will be no problem. Keep that in mind.

Sometimes people fight the shifting and cannot learn it. Others is not that hard, the problems lie elsewhere potentially undetected.