How to shift and split gears in an 18 speed transmission on a semi

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  • @GT-mn3bx
    @GT-mn3bx Рік тому +180

    Fun fact. Eaton invented the 2 speed rear end so you could hear the turbo spool twice as much. Come on back.

    • @Iron_Mike_Sharp
      @Iron_Mike_Sharp  Рік тому +27

      👑👑👑

    • @James-kd7dc
      @James-kd7dc Рік тому +11

      Fun fact number 2. Eaton actually made a 3 speed rear end also consisting of a bogie with 2 speed diffs. Shift 1 to high then the second to high giving you 3 speeds in the rear.

    • @theglitch99
      @theglitch99 Рік тому +1

      Nice

    • @starship3095
      @starship3095 9 місяців тому +1

      I heard you driver

    • @NIKBIGMAK485
      @NIKBIGMAK485 5 місяців тому

      The shit I wanna learn, instead Ive become a greasy sloppy door dummy mechanic

  • @santosflores3193
    @santosflores3193 10 місяців тому +39

    I like this video because you don’t do a lot of unnecessary talking and go straight to the point. Good job

    • @michaelaleme3518
      @michaelaleme3518 21 день тому

      I agree with you. I learn a lot from him. No trash talking. Thank you! Iron mike.

  • @snaprifice
    @snaprifice Рік тому +40

    Grind it till you find it! This isn't directed at Mike, but I get a kick out of southerners shifting like they're out for a Sunday drive, moving the stick for splits and going on vacation between the gears. Over here in the Canadian Rockies we can pull 140,000 lbs through the mountains... Let me tell you, it's an entirely different experience. Box Canyon hits 10%, hitting a range change on that sucker is always fun. To y'all that don't do a lot of grades, you're not missing much, it's really not that fun.

    • @Mudsuitable
      @Mudsuitable Рік тому +2

      Sometimes feel like I'm gonna rip the shifter off the top of the trans!

    • @theglitch99
      @theglitch99 Рік тому +6

      Grades and big weights takes skillz. Hats off to ya bud. Stay safe

    • @cmm3338
      @cmm3338 Місяць тому

      140k at 10% is wild. Ill go up it, idk about down it... haha.

    • @Winslowfilms.
      @Winslowfilms. День тому

      In canada we dont play games 😂

  • @shaunchappell784
    @shaunchappell784 Рік тому +39

    Not a trucker here and live in the UK, but love watching and listening to big dad. I worked with an EX trucker from texas(hauled cattle all over) for 14 years, the roughest, toughest, grumpiest, kindest, funniest, most helpful man I've ever met or ever had the pleasure of working with.
    We worked in probably one of the worst jobs imaginable together, and everyday on shift with that man was a pleasure.
    When he died it was one of the saddest days ever, but his funeral was one of the best celebrations of life ever. When his wife pulled out letters that he'd written to his closest friends and included me I was utterly shocked, his letter simply stated.....To Shaun, best man I've ever worked with, the only one I trusted with my life on the daily.
    Get back to work, and pay them bills.
    Big Al.

    • @redrobbo1896
      @redrobbo1896 Рік тому

      Where did you work with Shaun at? The UK?

  • @wesleycooper2647
    @wesleycooper2647 Рік тому +35

    I counted 32. But I quit school in grade 2 to manage a trailer park

    • @mattberg916
      @mattberg916 11 місяців тому +3

      A 2nd grader has got to do what a man's got to do!

    • @SwiftyMcVeigh851
      @SwiftyMcVeigh851 7 місяців тому

      Thicc chicks...

    • @toothlesstoe
      @toothlesstoe 6 місяців тому

      There are 8 gears with a high and low function for each, plus a low and high version of the low gear, making a total of 18 speeds, not counting the 4 reverse gears.

    • @gliderider7077
      @gliderider7077 5 місяців тому +1

      😂

    • @RemingtonScarborough
      @RemingtonScarborough Місяць тому

      @@toothlesstoe8x2 equals 16 idk where you got 18 from

  • @kellybyrd9772
    @kellybyrd9772 11 місяців тому +21

    I couldn't be that smooth in an automatic 🤣. Nice job sir

  • @KING-FU
    @KING-FU 6 місяців тому +3

    Mike sure made that look easy. When I was a kid, my Dad bought a used mini-wheeler dump with a twin-stick 5&4. Unloaded he didn’t split shifts, fully loaded / over, it was underpowered, so he hit most all of them. After three or four shift cycles, he’d already broken out in a sweat and I remember him looking a bit like he was playing whack-a-mole when trying to find those gears. 😂

  • @chadhobart4839
    @chadhobart4839 Рік тому +3

    She sounds so good 🇺🇸💪. We respect the way you handle your rigg

  • @qbertguy
    @qbertguy 9 місяців тому +4

    My Cascadia has an 18-speed with 3.55 Rears, splitting the bottom side is completely useless, I only do it in stop and go traffic otherwise I just treat it like a 13 speed.
    Nicest thing with that setup is I can go 75 miles an hour a hair over 1400 RPM

  • @kevinfurtado2550
    @kevinfurtado2550 Рік тому +1

    Smooth operator, my grandfather told me he drove a truck way back and it had 2 sticks, one was the range and the other has the gears. He said you needed 3 arms to shift and drive hahaha. I drive a gutless automatic for an LTL company.

  • @acfbfirephotography4875
    @acfbfirephotography4875 10 місяців тому +1

    Best video by far none of them show you how to do it they just tell you

  • @donnyrandolph9614
    @donnyrandolph9614 Рік тому +5

    Damn big dad your awesome i was trained on that same tranny way back in 94 when I started driving!!! Keep the videos rolling and that damn road hot!!!! Fym!!! Stay safe out there BIG DAD!!!

  • @way2comfortable698
    @way2comfortable698 2 місяці тому +1

    Dude that turbo sound is crazy

  • @wasteoftime727
    @wasteoftime727 7 місяців тому +1

    Best example video ive seen short simple ans too the point

  • @JuxJimmy-hu8cb
    @JuxJimmy-hu8cb 11 місяців тому +1

    I love the way you split geer please make another video again.

  • @tylerhollis2629
    @tylerhollis2629 Рік тому +5

    Smooth like butter c’mon

  • @STIKLYFE410
    @STIKLYFE410 7 місяців тому

    EVERYTIME I WATCH THIS DUDE ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS THE MOVIE "THE DEVIL'S REJECTS" AND THE CHICKEN SCENE.

  • @tonym492
    @tonym492 Рік тому +1

    Wish we had trucks this rad in New Zealand

  • @theglitch99
    @theglitch99 Рік тому +5

    Bro, these new drivers
    "steering wheel holders" push or slide it into D, and they are off terrorizing the roads 😂

    • @peacebewithin6895
      @peacebewithin6895 9 місяців тому

      🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

    • @christopherhardie1050
      @christopherhardie1050 3 місяці тому +1

      Well I don't own the company so I have no say in what they buy and also I'm making 90k year home daily in an auto idgaf if you think I'm a wheel holder 😂, by the time you hit 18 I'm 5 miles down the road

  • @MOB-Lee
    @MOB-Lee Рік тому +3

    FYM Saturday! C'mon back!

  • @RarelyReplies
    @RarelyReplies Рік тому +2

    I’ll be honest. I chubbed up a little bit over that turbo.

  • @zahir5595
    @zahir5595 7 місяців тому

    Truck sounding good!!! Smooth shifting!

  • @Whoabolt
    @Whoabolt Рік тому +5

    I bet big dad feel like a boss when he’s shifting gears 😂

  • @danp7463
    @danp7463 9 місяців тому +1

    Good video, I like the super 10 myself. It must be a nice feeling getting to haul a load so heavy you have to use Lo-Lo.

  • @Steelbackuk
    @Steelbackuk Рік тому +7

    Nice job there , big dad . I would like to see you have a go with the Eaton twin split

  • @michaelbaines4471
    @michaelbaines4471 4 місяці тому

    Nice and smooth shifting

  • @nicholaswilson7734
    @nicholaswilson7734 Рік тому +4

    Big dad tell the kids what happens when it goes in the granny hole on the high range

    • @Iron_Mike_Sharp
      @Iron_Mike_Sharp  Рік тому +1

      👻👻👻

    • @snaprifice
      @snaprifice Рік тому

      High range LO? Same ratio as 4th. Heard some people use it on 13's, but apparently you can grenade the transmission? I dunno. My old logging mentor used it, I've used it in the past but don't anymore.

    • @theglitch99
      @theglitch99 Рік тому +1

      The lo range hi is a secret gear for when your going into turns but don't want to lose to much speed and still need pulling power! 😊

  • @JR113FTW
    @JR113FTW 7 місяців тому

    No bs, just straight to it.

  • @digitalarslan1778
    @digitalarslan1778 7 місяців тому

    "It's the best way. Cuz I do it this way"😂

  • @notchfox6086
    @notchfox6086 11 місяців тому

    Breaker 1/9,,,,Big Dad Keeping it real! Come on Back!

  • @user-jj3co8mk6y
    @user-jj3co8mk6y 3 місяці тому

    Technically you started in 3rd, U shifted through 16 gears. great video btw

  • @southwesthellraisers4931
    @southwesthellraisers4931 Рік тому

    That how they were designed to be shifted for sure keeps the engine in the powerband

  • @bismarckgaming9303
    @bismarckgaming9303 7 місяців тому

    this guy is a fucking legend

  • @Bronco1977
    @Bronco1977 6 місяців тому

    I have a 1966 H1000 Ford Cabover with 250 Cummins 5 speed transmission and a Eaton 3 speed on front differential

  • @paulirving4151
    @paulirving4151 3 місяці тому

    Listen to that cat motor fire right up

  • @3dsmaxrocks699
    @3dsmaxrocks699 10 місяців тому

    Bop it! Pull it! Twist it!
    Pass it!🎵🎵

  • @gfield422
    @gfield422 6 днів тому

    Thank you brother

  • @countywatts5964
    @countywatts5964 10 місяців тому

    That’s how you do it ..awl that other shit they be doing is for show well done big daddy 😊

  • @robertdrake8299
    @robertdrake8299 Рік тому +1

    👍truck it up big dad
    👊fym , I'm up your up

  • @mrb9474
    @mrb9474 9 місяців тому

    sounds that might put a grown man to sleep in under 60 seconds

  • @nakinajay
    @nakinajay Рік тому

    The sound of those waste gates , reminds me of your mom taking a breath after each…..lol
    Have a great fuckin day Mr Sharp

  • @PedroSilva-rf2zm
    @PedroSilva-rf2zm Рік тому +1

    Can you do a video coming all the way down from the top gear

  • @turtlenems5529
    @turtlenems5529 9 місяців тому

    I follow you on tt. Just found this. I got you bud!

  • @Wergrun
    @Wergrun Рік тому +2

    Quit the railroad and getting my cdl after being inspired by big dad, what your title Mike? Owner operator?

    • @Iron_Mike_Sharp
      @Iron_Mike_Sharp  Рік тому +2

      Company man 🤝

    • @gumballer133
      @gumballer133 Рік тому +1

      Drive lowboy for the Railroad, best of both worlds!

    • @theglitch99
      @theglitch99 Рік тому

      Facts, do not join the rat race of the big box companies, nothing like what big Mike does!

  • @UwUchimkin
    @UwUchimkin Рік тому

    Wish I had a 18 speed in mine. Sometimes I gotta run 4 up to damn near 2k before goin in to 5 c'mon!

  • @squirrelchaser
    @squirrelchaser 10 місяців тому

    Do another downshifting all the gears with the jake on

  • @outdoormatt5188
    @outdoormatt5188 8 місяців тому +1

    💥💪💯

  • @brandome4670
    @brandome4670 9 місяців тому

    I'm up here in Canada hauling 63500 kg. And we don't split gears like that unless you're going up a steep hill

    • @Iron_Mike_Sharp
      @Iron_Mike_Sharp  9 місяців тому +4

      And if you listen very close,You can almost hear me not giving a fuck

    • @brandome4670
      @brandome4670 9 місяців тому

      @@Iron_Mike_Sharp fucking love it bro. Ive watched 10 shifting videos tonight and everybody splits, starting to think im doing it wrong

  • @chrnc
    @chrnc Рік тому +1

    6nZ madness

  • @TruckerChaser
    @TruckerChaser 9 місяців тому

    nice video

  • @arabtruckdriver
    @arabtruckdriver 9 місяців тому

    Good Vidoe thanks

  • @redeyegoblin
    @redeyegoblin 11 місяців тому +1

    Let me see if i follow. You start in LOW. Shift 1, tyen split, 2 then split, 3 then split etc. When you're done with LOW, youbgo into HIGH, and rinse and repeat? I want to get into it, i drive manuals, but i think its going to ve tricky especially to downshift, and unsplit, go from high to low ...
    Can you do a vid on downshifting. If you did one ill go look for it. Thanks!!

    • @donmunro144
      @donmunro144 9 місяців тому

      Just play the video backwards. Downshifting is the same as upshifting only going the other way.

  • @julierehoric3856
    @julierehoric3856 8 місяців тому

    Just likes to hear himself cuss

  • @strictlyhardrap1688
    @strictlyhardrap1688 6 місяців тому

    I drive a manual mustang and with this video seems really easy . Basically each gear is 2? You just split when the rpm’s ask then then on to the next….. we’re you clutching ? Or floating

  • @saturnoL
    @saturnoL 2 місяці тому

    Mike could you split gears while downshifting???

  • @johncan12345
    @johncan12345 6 місяців тому

    Is that a cat 3406? Sounds amazing

  • @user-vv9yn3vc3f
    @user-vv9yn3vc3f 5 місяців тому

    When you split the gear do you push the clutch in?

  • @JG-The_Immortal_One
    @JG-The_Immortal_One Рік тому +3

    Dammit Big Dad, you are a Gear Shifting Mother Trucker, C’mon!
    G.F.Y.M.

  • @donmunro144
    @donmunro144 9 місяців тому

    I have an 18 spd and I don't know if I've ever split them all. Especially on the low side.

  • @rigo3364
    @rigo3364 11 місяців тому +1

    Do you double clutch everything or how do you do that part?

    • @mattberg916
      @mattberg916 11 місяців тому +1

      It's all coordinated by the right hand and right foot. No clutch needed except starting

  • @Marvin91790
    @Marvin91790 7 місяців тому

    so when you start off in 1st that technically 3rd gear since you don’t use the low. right or wrong??

  • @frankblack1481
    @frankblack1481 Рік тому

    The last time I saw anyone work numbers 1 thru 18 so fast it was your mom.

  • @user-rd2jy7vq6j
    @user-rd2jy7vq6j Місяць тому

    Why did you only shift 16 gears

  • @DonnAz340
    @DonnAz340 8 місяців тому

    Why do some people jump into neutral and then back into gear when splitting? Does it have any actual benefit or are they just doing it because they think it looks cool?

    • @MunicipalityCity
      @MunicipalityCity 7 місяців тому

      Because the clutch is only used to go into 1st or reverse, you want to hang in neutral till your rpms are just right so you don't have any grinding. I don't drive trucks, but that's what common sense tells me.

  • @docjoecornpusher5966
    @docjoecornpusher5966 Рік тому +2

    No Clutch FYM!

    • @theglitch99
      @theglitch99 Рік тому +1

      Clutch only for take off and stopping, you float gears according to you rpms. Very nice on the legs!

  • @Farmer_1776
    @Farmer_1776 10 місяців тому

    You don’t use the mystery hole!?

  • @wyatt12358
    @wyatt12358 5 місяців тому

    THATS HARD ON A DRIVETRAIN SHIFTING WITH THE JAKE BRAKE ON.

  • @MenadMenad-hw1qx
    @MenadMenad-hw1qx 6 місяців тому

    Do you have clutch pedal?

  • @jesseaviles2988
    @jesseaviles2988 5 місяців тому

    Lmao. Looked for a video of how to… Man! thanks for the instruction. My common sense was not wrong! Did it somehow the right way… 1L all the way to 4L then jump to 5L to 8L and ended up to 8H. I find it quicker to avoid shifting a lot with the previous “explanation”. 😅 Does that happen a lot in trucking lifestyle? If it does, it’s for me. I freaking love driving!
    Looking forward to get a CDL after I learn how to drive on American Truck Simulator. 😂
    Keep on trucking! 🫡

  • @MustangDesudiroz
    @MustangDesudiroz 3 місяці тому

    hoyl fuck it was that simple :0

  • @Urapunk
    @Urapunk 9 місяців тому

    Never seen someone split em all

  • @daniellewanyandie9576
    @daniellewanyandie9576 11 місяців тому

    Do you have one with down shifting?

  • @DJSHADDY2K7
    @DJSHADDY2K7 4 місяці тому

    Like a pro #Ironmikesharp .😂

  • @Tgl400
    @Tgl400 24 дні тому

    The sound 😩

  • @yamguy33
    @yamguy33 10 місяців тому

    actualy you shifted 16 gears , 18 gear includes the bull low

  • @dallasgilliland2723
    @dallasgilliland2723 Рік тому

    where that seat belt at

  • @3dsmaxrocks699
    @3dsmaxrocks699 10 місяців тому

    Listen to that co.....

  • @billbill9392
    @billbill9392 8 місяців тому

    13speed better land sped to gear ratios

  • @celiamartincordoba448
    @celiamartincordoba448 11 місяців тому

    13 speed and 18 speed. Almost the same thing.

  • @Dieselking217
    @Dieselking217 11 місяців тому

    I’m I the only one counting 12 gears?

  • @bigchillin6200
    @bigchillin6200 Місяць тому

    FYM

  • @1957mattes
    @1957mattes Місяць тому

    Is this video from the last century? Which modern truck still has a clutch? We have automatic transmissions. What backward country is this from?😂😂😂

  • @santopecado6606
    @santopecado6606 9 місяців тому

    You did it but did not teach a thing😮

  • @C-CH_Learn_how_2shift
    @C-CH_Learn_how_2shift 6 місяців тому

    Wrong

  • @wevans1400
    @wevans1400 4 місяці тому

    No one ever asked

  • @nervouswreck392
    @nervouswreck392 9 місяців тому

    I HATE THIS COMMENT ‼️
    SOOOOO I DISLIKED IT‼️ YA☝️

  • @joekugelman4196
    @joekugelman4196 11 місяців тому

    She sounds healthy!!!!!

  • @slm2500
    @slm2500 Рік тому +2

    Listen to that Turbo and waste gate. When you hit 10th gear tractor is dialed in.

  • @seanvanwallegham2108
    @seanvanwallegham2108 Рік тому

    Why do you have the Jake on

    • @Sixinthefield
      @Sixinthefield 8 місяців тому

      I didn't hear a jake at any point........