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[–] halvar@lemy.lol 21 points 1 day ago (12 children)

for a moment i thought this was loss

Also is this for real? Never looked into truck transmissions or even just thought about them in general.

[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The real shift patterns are like this:

They look complicated but it's not too bad when you get used to the idea. In normal use it's basically a four speed H pattern with two different ways to increase the number of gears. You have a range selector to give you 8 main gears (you shift 1 through four in low range then flip to high range and move back to 1 position to give 5 through 8) and then you have a splitter that gives every gear a high and low ratio (in order you'd go 1st low -> 1st high -> 2nd low -> 2nd high -> etc). Normally you don't need to use all the gears so you can skip some of the sequence - particularly when lightly loaded. Lo position is a particularly low ratio, and reverse is as per normal except you can split it to have a somewhat faster or slower reverse gear.

I'll admit I haven't driven a full 18 speed but I've driven 9 speeds with a range selector and a 10 speed with a splitter and both were easy enough to learn so combining the two doesn't seem as daunting as it might be to those who haven't tried either.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

I couldn't get the double clutching timing right, and my instructor was a cunt who got on my nerves the whole day of training. Also because they're a gated gearbox, you're supposed to follow the H pattern and not cut desire paths.

[–] Swe_expat@mastodonsweden.se 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

@SaneMartigan @gnu
I was brought up on track driving and old 911s — they demand a certain driving style: rev-matching, always keeping the revs up. That eliminated the need for double clutching.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

In Australia, you've got to show double clutching to pass the non-synchronised driving test.

[–] Swe_expat@mastodonsweden.se 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

@SaneMartigan
Impressive — unsynchronized gearboxes are no longer manufactured, in the EU will it soon be nearly impossible to get a driver’s license for a manual transmission.
I need to reallocate 🙏

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

They're going out of fashion here too but it means there's a heap of cheap old trucks available. With our housing cost issues, I've been daydreaming about building a house-truck of sorts.

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