Centerpole90 said:
We had an old bobtail truck that had a two speed rear and I remember damn near tearing it up because I thought it was a road ranger. I was trying to split the transmission until somebody said whoa buddy.!!! Isn't that funny, I was so young I have no idea what I was doing but I had already driven the truck with a 10speed before I ever got in that old bobtail. Dang farm kids.
I was thinking back now to those twin sticks. He also had a W900 with an oilfield winch bad on it and it had at 10 & 4. But that drove different because you really only used third and fourth gear in the auxiliary transmission. On the highway. Third gear was direct fourth gear was overdrive. So if you were just driving down the highway, you'd mainly shift with the 10 and then use fourth gear to split overdrive. All those other gears were for winch work.
The five and four wasn't like that. You gotta really get in the sticks on that one.
Edit one more time for link. Bonus popinjay for cab over- double bonus for the screaming Detroit.
The joke among old truck drivers is that if you see a guy driving a 5+4 and he waves at you, he must be lugging the motor.
I love manuals, but how anyone thought those were a good idea is a mystery to me. A 13-speed was about as much fun as I wanted.
