WorkinMan
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Post by WorkinMan on Sept 9, 2005 5:37:48 GMT -5
I was in a truckstop yesterday. Now I know that I am not a truck driver, and I know that I have no reason to ask sucha foolish question as this one, but I cannot help myself, this is just too good to pass up.
I got into a conversation with a young fellow about trucks and working on them and all that. I don't know much about the driving side of things, but I have spent a fair bit of time working on semis.
Then this guy, who I honestly doubt is old enough to have regular license, let alone CDLs, starts talking about his shift pattern.
He described it as a standrad H pattern layed over on it's side, with a splitter.
OK, Now I know a bit about transmissions, and I have NEVER seen a pattern like this. If it was an H layed over, you would shift it side to side, not back and forward. Neutral would actually be from front to back, not side to side.
Not to say that this tranny is not mechanically possible, but it sounds like it would be as hard to get used to as a twin stick 5 over 4.
He said it was in his "Trusty Pete", and I have never seen a pete with that rig in it.
If this guy was telling me true, and there is such a creature alive, what kind of hassle does it create when learning to shift it?
Sounds a lot like a truck that you could park with the motor running at an airport and not worry about anybody stealing it.
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Post by Fozzy on Sept 9, 2005 9:46:12 GMT -5
I Think maybe his brains were "laid over".. I've never heard of anything like that.. he probably hasn't either...*wink*
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Post by Charles on Sept 9, 2005 12:59:10 GMT -5
Could he possibly be talking about this pattern (found on military 6x6 trucks)?
I always snickered watching the 18 year old airmen (allegedly trained to drive the deuce and a halfs, and with the shift pattern clearly riveted to the dash) shifting as though it were a standard H-pattern, wondering why it bogged down in "4th" and then compounding the error by then "upshifting" to "5th" and making the rest of the trip in 4th on the governor at 45 mph.
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Post by truckertom on Sept 10, 2005 15:46:31 GMT -5
The old Spicers had the 4th and 5th reversed. I think somone is full of it, even the old brownie box had the regular H pattern. About the only thing I have seen with a sideways pattern is old heavy equipment.
This kid watched Somkey and the Bandit too many times.
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Post by Fozzy on Sept 10, 2005 16:39:45 GMT -5
The seven speed in the old Consolidated Freightways freighliners had a goofy gear pattern also, but never side to side.. that would mean that the transmission shaft and gears would be "transverse" would it not?
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