I've just started driving a different truck with a 9LL tranny. For the last few weeks I've tried shifting without the clutch but I'm not getting any better at it. Guess I'm used to the 10 speed in a more powerful truck and I just can't get into the groove for this truck..the power band is from 1300 to 2000 rpm. Last few days I've started using the clutch for every shift and have become comfortable with it.

Moral of this story...just because you see pros floating the gears...do whatever works for you (and doesn't break equipment)

well eddie as of jan 07 meritor will cease making manual transmissions
and begin to produce only their freedom line leaving this manual market all to eaton fuller. i wonder when they will follow suit and begin producing only autoshifts.

Oh god, never I hope.

Meritor can take their freedomline and stick it up their *ss as far as I'm concerned.

I second that-TERRIBLE

i know the regular meritor are poj but never drove a current freedomline version whats wrong with them?

I could float gears in my roehl truck that had an eaton fuller tranny but no way in he|| in this crete truck which has a meritor... :?:

if you can float an Eaton fuller you can float a meritor
only problem with meritors is that meritors are cheap pieces of crap.
so improper floating will take its toll on a meritor even faster.
they were cheap so carriers put em in. as of Jan if you want a full manual you will have to order an Eaton fuller.
its only a matter of time before Eaton follows suit.
i read somewhere European drivers swear by their zf freedom trannys and referred to Eaton fullers as death boxes.

wierd, im european, and I get pissed at my super10 for shifting when it wants to :lol:

europeans drive cabovers, they can`t be the sharpest tools in the shed.



but if this is all true I better start scrounging for more 18 speeds and spare parts to fill the shop

I don't think anyone here will live to see the day there are no manual transmissions. Meritor will quit making them, but meritors are pieces of sh*t anyway. Eaton Fuller has a market share and will always make them as long as there are buyers. There is also another company that everyone forgets about.http://www.ttcautomotive.com/English/home/home.asp They still build the Spicer line of transmissions - even the auxiliaries.