Finally found the Dominic Toretto’s gearshift.
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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"PATTERN"
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.
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.
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.
@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.
In Australia, you've got to show double clutching to pass the non-synchronised driving test.
@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 🙏
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.
No, it’s not real.
that kind of makes me disappointed
If it helps the real version is still pretty cool, with basically two transmissions and switches on the shifter
- wait, 2 transmissions as in 2 separate transmissions? Or like 2 working together?
Two separate gearsets in one case
It’s not for trucks it’s for the fast and the furious
Thought it might be legit until I saw the shift to 9th
It actually kinda makes sense if you’re looking at what is essential here. They probably don’t start at 1 they probably start at 3 Then hit 7 then 12 Then 17 then 20. Anything in between is that granular torque curve sweet spot for whatever reason they require it maybe if they are way overloaded or had to stop while at capacity while going uphill.
might as well skip 5th gear
You have to go through 12th to get to 6th
You can go around through N, though
yeh RPM gage be like "wtf is going"?
Nah, you can go up between first and second, then to the right.
Shifting from 12th to 13th as a treat
Does it even fit the community?
At least it looks more serious that the meme/shitpost ones
And this is the main quest, you gotta flip it over for the dark-world map.