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How often do you use low range

wsucougarx

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I use low range every time I back up. I have to squeeze into a tight space so the slow speed and not having to ride my clutch really helps. I also use low gear when first pulling my trucks out of the coral. Kind of gives her time to get her legs warmed up before hitting the road:driver:
 

nk14zp

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I always start in 2 low then 2 high and so on if I'm unloaded. With load I use 2 low then 3 low and so on. When you realy know your truck you will shift using the best combation that put the less strain on the clutch/ drivetrain.
I also wind out every gear shifting just short of the gov. till I know she is rolling well and can hold at or around 1850-1900rpm with out lugging.
:ditto: Same here.
 

Clay James

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I use it almost exclusively around the ranch and use it often with split shifting on the road. I always start in 1st if I start in high range. The goal is to put the least stress on the transmission and clutch because I incur the cost and labor of fixing it and want it to last as long as possible.
 

CARNAC

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I've been using it quite a bit in the last month with the heavy loads I've been carrying and split shifting on hills and taking off. I remember my bus driver doing it all the time growing up...still not sure how he got that horse and carriage to do that but.....
 

196thprober

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I use low range every time I back up. I have to squeeze into a tight space so the slow speed and not having to ride my clutch really helps. I also use low gear when first pulling my trucks out of the coral. Kind of gives her time to get her legs warmed up before hitting the road:driver:

I do the exact same as wscougarx backing up, also in parades, and I used 'split shifting' always with my M109 towing my CUCV after I was taught how to do it properly by a very seasoned and knowledgeable fellow SS member- what a dream that was after i got the hang of it. Had to sell my 109 though, imagine tears. :(
 

KsM715

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I dont know it all, by any means, but I though I remember reading that starting off in 2nd with the spicer was a bad idea. Always first and always double clutch between first and second. I could be wrong though
Yep. Do a search for "sheared+key" and you can find all kinds of threads with people breaking the 2nd/3rd key on the mainshaft. Im begining to have symptoms of a sheared key in my trans.

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/23787-2nd-gear.html

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/42608-deuce-trans-junk.html
 

toddm

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Pretty much the same as everyone else, parades, backing up into my driveway and backing most everyplace else. Also any tight spot I might be in.
 

M35A2-AZ

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I start off in low when I am loaded then I shift up to high.
Also I use low to back and just to use low from time to time.
 

PalmerBS

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So are we 100% in agreement that you can shift into low range while on the move?? Even unloaded over here there's one hill that gives me ****. Low range sounds like it would help a lot.

But I don't wanna try it until i get a definite!
 

steelandcanvas

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Just as others have said, I use low range when backing, in parades, starting out with heavy loads, and pulling stumps. We were trained in school to "split-shift" and not be reluctant to do it when required.
 

Floridianson

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Read connie again 10 to 20 tons on your back hello. Second gear low range you can let out the clutch and it takes off with out any fuel . That is not lugging. I use high reverse empty to back but been driving big rigs to long.
 
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Welder Sam

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just messin

There's no real hills in Yuma to speak of.


Last i was down that way there was hills.... under every little bush. Only about 6-10" high but theyre freakin everywhere. Other than shallow washes, ur right tho.. no real climbs
 

Seth_O

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I don't get to use low anywhere near as often as I would like. Occasionally when at the off-road park is about it, or when heading up/down a large loose gravel hill at a buddies house so I don't spin my tires.

Gonna' have to try the reverse trick though - tks for that [thumbzup]
 

BlizzardX23

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I don't get to use low anywhere near as often as I would like. Occasionally when at the off-road park is about it, or when heading up/down a large loose gravel hill at a buddies house so I don't spin my tires.

Gonna' have to try the reverse trick though - tks for that [thumbzup]

You go to Prairie City? That's where I take mine
 
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