Dude can drive!

Hopefully, I can make this apply to a 5 speed Ram 50, with no RPM gauge. 🙂

I dont understand homie, we are driving big ass trucks that kill Youd think they would make drivin this vehicle as easy as possible. They make it harder. I guess that where these automatics come in

Does it with ease

And If you value your clutch brake, don’t coast to a stop and then find a gear, keep it in a gear at all times…. So let it almost come to a stop and float it into first and don’t depress your clutch pedal to the floor every time you stop, stay out of the clutch brake. There’s so much unnecessary clutch brake wear from people being lazy and it won’t matter until you can no longer get the input shaft on the tranny to quit spinning to get it into gear..

Just saying you got a kid in the front seat...maybe you should pay attention to the road rather than making content. This is why accidents happen and the sole reason class 1 licences are so expensive

ita a lot easier with a tall crew and a boom

A professional truck driver would stop at the STOP sign!

Shift at 1500 rpm. Ez as that

Sorry to say. This guy does not much about trucking . He is too technical, and very clean to speak. This job is not about school education, driving a big truck takes huge responsibilitys, is not a game

I don't think if is synchronized or not, our 1967 Ford was the same of my little 1996 little Ford Escort. All stick shit are very similar

Do you use the clutch on the first gear at all ..?

A lot easier than people think. I drive an old ford water truck at the construction site I work at which is a 5 speed manual with a gear splitter so it’s technically a 10 speed. I jjst played around with what rpm’s I should shift at to float the gears and combined with the fact that I realized I had an extra 5 gears made it so much easier to shift smoothly. Never went to a cdl school or anything I just picked it up within a day or 2 and I rarely look at the rpm gauge when shifting.

Need more ballast. Next time I'm over we can drink beer and work on that!

I'm having so much trouble downshifting and finding the correct gear when going around a corner 😢

Dude!!!! U are a freaking life saver i been watching to get the concept for a min now i learned how but when i got my driving time on a job i was in a automatic and i got scared to drive a manual again but now i feel confident u explained it perfectly i thought u came off the throttle bro but the way u said ease up and don't come off it i have heavy foot tendencies is why iget scared

Good video thanks y

Can i do this with my miata?

I'm new to American manuals, European 18 speeds are syncromesh so you just clutch in, shift, clutch out same as a car. I've mostly got the hang of it after a few weeks in my first proper job driving 18 speed manuals after 8 years on automatics. I don't find double clutching works well for me, plus I have no instruction, floating works better and is smoother and can do it mostly without grinding any fears (touching the face of the gear in your explanation). People say it's easier to shift loaded but I'm on Super B's so the truck weighs 140,000lbs fully loaded, shifting when loaded up is much more difficult. Seeing you not just slot every gear into place every time though makes me feel much better about my shifting. The only issue I have in my box is the shift from 5th to 6th (18 speed), it is the only gear that doesn't seem to come out easily when you let off the throttle, so it requires a bit of a push and I don't know why.

He said nuff talking dad we want action hell yea lil man

Little one said shut up and show us dad 💀

did you know that you are a dad who talk too much ??.. thanks for the video very helpful

2024 anyone?

I went through CDL school and they teach you to double clutch. I accidentally floated gears by accident and it felt way nicer then double clutching. I would love to be able to practice this, but all the trucks at my starting company are automatics.

Who cares if you press the cluch or not it'll grind and bang all day if you don't match speeds. Just because every transmission manufacturer says to use it, know why, cause when you get it wrong you're not going against the engine as well.

Muy lindo amigo. Solo que seas mas tranquilo con los movimientos del bastón de mandos. Y no es recomendable llevar el porta bebidas suelto en el asiento...SOS.

Use antifreeze for the testing fluid; it settles out quicker. Water takes several hours, like overnight!

Good work, have done my 1994 model IV Kitfox windscreen twice, and doors once, need to do turtle deck before summer

Nice vid. My clutch just went out on my car and I remembered an old buddy of mine back in HS who would float the gears in his 74 Camaro, so I've been using this technique to get me around town without a clutch!

Me watching this knowing every sincro in my 5 speed ranger is completely gone I have no tachometer and the speedometer only works up to 15 mph

I wonder if this would work with a Eaton Fuller Medium Duty 6 speed Overdrive ??

Around 1:48 you mention being at 2000rpm and your next gear is at 1500rpm, how do you know what rpm each gear is supposed to be at? Or is there a chart? (Beyond just practice, memory, and engine feel?) Also does this strategy hold the for car and pickup manual transmission?

Great video fella!

I don't drive trucks, but I ride motorcycles and you can shift motorcycles without the clutch too

The CDL school I'm attending gives the option to be tested on automatic, double clutch, or floating. It sounded complicated, but thanks to this video, I chose floating. Great video and instructions. Thank you!

Is this the same for a normal car?

Stop talking Dad, I just want to drive 😂😂 that killed me. Lol

Hes probably driving that for you now. Thats enough talking, lets ride.

It really is almost impossible to verbally explain to someone how to do this. It's all about feel in my opinion.

I tried to explain this to my dad who's only ever owned manual cars his whole life, 50+ years. He couldn't wrap his head around it and didn't believe it was possible. I eventually showed him in his Tacoma and he was flabbergasted lol. He didn't even know what to say. Something that helped me is you've gotta think about how the drivetrain is being loaded. When the engine is torqueing the drivetrain either accelerating or engine braking, it's not gonna want to pop in or out. You've got to hit that sweet spot where it's relatively neutral load. That might explain why it's harder at higher RPM due to the smaller window before it starts engine braking Love your clutch... pedal? stick? Lol great vid

Did you buy this from J's alarms on eBay. That's who I was about to one from. I see this is an old video, did the remote start ever give you any problems or did it last?

Is that full-scale ?

I’ve had my cdl for forty plus years , and your better then iam , good job

Great video and explanation. I'm just starting out. Thanks for the great video and tips

Shit, show thé tachometer

I never knew this existed. This is fascinating

Is this bad for the transmission?

Would have been more science to also test fuel wirh ethanol.

Huh, pretty similar with the sequential gears on motorcycles. The only difference is that you want to use the clutch from 1st to 2nd because it’s such a steep jump, with neutral in between. I kinda wish neutral was like a sideways push instead of an up/down. I seem to rev-bomb in neutral a little too often when taking off. Always when some little old lady is crossing the road next to me, SMH…