How Do You Downshift A 10 Speed?

Ho do you down shift a 10 speed?

Ho do you down shift a 10 speed?

I break or just release the gas and let the rpm drop to around 10 then push in the clutch to move the gear to Neutral, then rev the rpm to about 13-15 rpm and clutch in to get it into the next lower gear. Or to drop 2 gears I let the rpm drop to 8 and then do that same process.

What Troy is referring to is called double clutching , which is always taught first because the government still insists that you double clutch during the test even though the majority of drivers rarely use the clutch when shifting. There is nothing wrong with it, and some drivers continue that way throughout their careers. But most end up floating the gears, or not using the clutch except to fully stop or a few other instances. The principle is still the same either way, you watch your tac. At 15 you upshift and at 10 you down shift. But like Troy said once your out of gear downshifting you rev the engine up to about 13 to get it back in gear.

If you have driven a manual transmission before there is one big difference, you do not push the clutch in NEARLY as far as you do in a normal vehicle. You really only depress the pedal 1 1/2 to 2 inches if that far.

Don't let the fact its a 10 speed scare you, its still basically like an H pattern but with a selector switch to change the H from low gears to high gears.

Woody

After over a year, I'm still not a pro at shifting. I can float all the way through the gears going up, and float part of the way down, but I just can't get the hang of floating down in the lower gears without lurching the truck. I've also been having a heck of time getting used to the 10 speed in this truck. Every truck I had before this had a 9 speed. The top 4 gears seem exactly the same, but the bottom 6 are so close together that when I'm downshifting I have a hard time finding the right one sometimes. And at that low speed the speedometer is no help in telling you what gear you should be in.

I'm driving a 10 speed and for me once I knock the splitter up going into 6th that's going to be 15-20 mph and then 7th is going to be 20-25mph, 8th is 25-35ish give or take a few miles an hour and 9th is 35ish to 50ish and then 10th is all the way hammer down. I remember that when I'm down shifting plus I shift on sound now too. I know in school they tell you to downshift at 1000 rpms, let it drop a little 800-900 then you barely have to rev to get it to slide into gear. Like you through training I had drove nothing but a 9 speed and on my mentors truck was a 9 speed. Then I get mine and it's a 10. You learn real quick when you try and jump from 5th to 7th thinking it's 4th to 5th😂

I skip shift all the time except if I am starting out on a grade. I go up two at 1700 or drop two at 800 rpms. Even at 79,000 lbs I still do it.

Now if i am shifting to save on fuel (progressive shifting) i up shift at 1250 rpm and downshift at 900 rpm going signal gear shifts. Its a fast shift pattern and in the lower gears its super fast. About a half second between gears. But is serves its purpose.

I guess it helps to know i start out in 3 gear if heavy and 5 gear or 6th if empty.

I guess it helps to know i start out in 3 gear if heavy and 5 gear or 6th if empty.

Wow. I guess I do suck. I start in 2nd with heavy loads, 4th empty, and 5th bobtailing.

When I first got this truck with the 10 speed it must have been pretty funny to see me leaving the terminal the first time. They put you in a new truck and give you just enough time to throw your stuff in it and head out on a load. I got this truck and couldn't get any info on how to shift a 10-speed and asked around and couldn't find anyone with any experience with one. Company drivers also can't leave terminals unless they are on a dispatched load, so I couldn't go anywhere to practice with it. Yard speed limit is 8 1/2. I get my empty and head out the gate. I grind a couple of gears and can't find the next one to save my life. Ended up having to come to a complete stop in the road, put on my flashers, and start from a dead stop to get going down the road. It also didn't help that this thing had a completely different engine brake on it and I didn't have time to look at the manual before I left. Didn't realize the last driver had left the engine brake on in the max setting. Really hard to float the gears in an unfamiliar transmission with the engine brake full on. Felt like a complete idiot until I got down the road a ways.