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44. Torque

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #42)

Tue Feb 20, 2018, 01:57 AM

Feb 2018

why on god's green earth does any truck maker think there's a need for 20 gear shifts?

To get the heavy load moving, you need torque, and a transmission basically multiplies torque. As a general rule, you need multiple, closely stepped gears in order to get the weight moving from a standstill up to speed.

That transmission was built before the days of air operated shifting. The silver truck I showed above would have had 2 sticks if it weren’t for the fact that it had the ability to move gears inside the tranny using air pressure

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