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<blockquote data-quote="Sweeper" data-source="post: 4821530" data-attributes="member: 66635"><p><h3>[USER=55674]@HFolb23[/USER]</h3><p>There is roughly four hundred rpm between each gear depending on the tractor. If your road speed increases or decreases during your downshift this will factor in as well. If you were at 1200 rpm you should be able raise the rpm to around 1600 and get transmission into the next lower gear. You learn to “hear“ the transmission. If it is grinding fast like a dentist drill your rpm is way off, or you’ve selected the wrong gear. If it grinds slower your rpm is close. One of the main things when I was road tested was to be able to recover gears while at speed, if we could not demonstrate how to recover they would fail us. [USER=76343]@Yeet[/USER] had good advice above on how to figure out which gear you should be selecting when you find yourself in a recovery situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sweeper, post: 4821530, member: 66635"] [HEADING=2][USER=55674]@HFolb23[/USER][/HEADING] There is roughly four hundred rpm between each gear depending on the tractor. If your road speed increases or decreases during your downshift this will factor in as well. If you were at 1200 rpm you should be able raise the rpm to around 1600 and get transmission into the next lower gear. You learn to “hear“ the transmission. If it is grinding fast like a dentist drill your rpm is way off, or you’ve selected the wrong gear. If it grinds slower your rpm is close. One of the main things when I was road tested was to be able to recover gears while at speed, if we could not demonstrate how to recover they would fail us. [USER=76343]@Yeet[/USER] had good advice above on how to figure out which gear you should be selecting when you find yourself in a recovery situation. [/QUOTE]
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