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BravestDog · 03-05-2007, 08:51 PM

What's the difference between a family truck and a Class 8 trucks transmission?

Why is it that with a family truck, you can shift it normally, accelerate, push in the clutch, shift...but with a class 8, you must shift without a clutch and time it with the RPM.

What makes the Class 8 transmissions different and why are the Class 8 transmissions like that? Why can't they function like a regular sized trucks transmission?

03-05-2007, 08:51 PM	#1
BravestDog Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 748	What's the difference between a family truck and a Class 8 trucks transmission? Why is it that with a family truck, you can shift it normally, accelerate, push in the clutch, shift...but with a class 8, you must shift without a clutch and time it with the RPM. What makes the Class 8 transmissions different and why are the Class 8 transmissions like that? Why can't they function like a regular sized trucks transmission? __________________ "I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety." Ernest Shackleton, Antarctic Explorer, Sea and Land, 1874-1922.