
Everything that is shown in white will be what's in the high range. Everything that you see displayed in purple will be a gear that's in the low range. First off, each box shows the position on the H-shifter so the upper-left box is the upper-left shifter position. Ok so let's have a closer look at what's being displayed here. However, it helps if you can read the darn things right? For an example I will start by showing you the Eaton Fuller 18 speed schematic and then explain it's contents. In the later sections on each transmission I will include a schematic that you can peruse to your hearts content.
#13 speed shift pattern how to
So I thought I would begin with how to read a gear schematic. If you can't or don't want to mess with a schematic or can't find one for your specific transmission you can always just play with the truck and figure out the pattern. If you can't read a shift schematic, fear not, I'll go into that as well. There's a couple of different ways you can go about this depending on whether you are adept at reading a shift schematic or not. Now I thought I would cover how to figure out a specific gear pattern. So I've gone through the basics of how a semi shifts and how we get all those gears. Step 9: You then just go through steps 1 - 6 again until you reach your final gear. This will put you into your first low gear of the high range. Step 8: After you have run through the entire bottom range you would then depress your clutch, put your splitter into low, hit you "Shifter Toggle: 2" also known as your range and shift into where your gear 1L was. Step 7: For brevity sake we are going to say that you continue this pattern until you run through all your gears in the bottom range (don't worry I will explain this further in individual transmissions) Step 6: As your RPMs reach the magic numbers you again press in on the clutch and hit your splitter button putting you into 2H. Step 5: Again, as your RPMs reach the magic numbers you want to depress the clutch, hit your splitter again and shift into where gear 2 is which will put you into 2L. Step 4: When your RPMs reach between 15ish press in on the clutch as you hit your "Shifter Toggle: 2" known as your splitter and then let out on the clutch. Step 3: As you press in the on your accelerator slowly as you slowly let out on the clutch to start the truck moving. Step 2: Press your clutch in and put your shifter where first gear is. So if you put it into whatever gear position is gear 1 it will be gear 1L (depending on transmission of course). Step 1: The first time you load into the game every time the gearbox is going to be set to low range and the splitter will be in low. I will explain specific transmissions further in this guide. It's worth noting that I'm describing this in general terms with no specific transmission in mind.
#13 speed shift pattern manual
"Why", you may ask? Well, there are times when cornering or maneuvering that you are going to need to press those buttons with one hand on the shifter and one hand on the wheel.So let's jump right into how we shift a manual gearbox in a semi. You basically want to put these buttons somewhere that you can reach easily with one hand on the wheel and one hand on the shifter. The first thing I would like to say is on where to map these gears. Now it's time to explain how to use them. So I've shown you in the last section what allows us to get all these gears on our truck. In the next section I will explain using these keys. These buttons are going to be used to get all those lovely gears that a gearhead like myself loves. One is labeled "Shifter Toggle: 1" and the other is labeled "shifter toggle: 2". In our control settings (see images below) there are two very important hot keys that we have to set up. So how do we then magicly split these gears in half and put them into low and high range? This is where are our control settings within the game come in. Then there is a high range and a low range that when switched gives you another 4 forward gears which are then, again, split into high and low. It's actually 5 forward gears which are then split in half with what's called a splitter. In actual fact there aren't 18 gears in an Eaton Fuller 18 speed for one.

Let's continue our example of the Eaton Fuller 18 speed. This comes from the way a truck transmission is set up. So how is this possible? How can we get 18 gears out of only 6 positions? In fact, there are even some trucks in real life that have up to 24 gears.

You might look at an Eaton Fuller 18 speed and say to yourself, "I have 6 gear positions and there are 18 gears!". I think the first thing people notice when they first start looking at manual semi transmissions is the number of gears there are.
