Will a TH8A Shifter work well on this game?

[ChyonE]

Since the transmissions have 18 gears and my th8a shifter has 7-1 How will it work out?

[AyMazingATS]

Yes it will.

Assign a button for range selector and another for hi/lo splitter.

You will not use the last gate on the right side (7 and R).

Look up the shift pattern/diagram for an 18 speed.

[ChyonE]

Originally posted by AyMazingATS:

Yes it will.

Assign a button for range selector and another for hi/lo splitter.

You will not use the last gate on the right side (7 and R).

Look up the shift pattern/diagram for an 18 speed.

If i understood correctly.

There are 8 gears and at the far bottom left (2th gear) to change hi/low? such as high 8 is like gear 18?

(Sorry I'm fairly new to this)

[AyMazingATS]

R - 1/5 - 3/7

LL - 2/6 - 4/8

That is how an 18 speed is set up. Each gear on the pattern can be split.

Here's a video on shift an 18 speed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wd-nYoyrHY

Since you don't have a truck shift knob....assign buttons on your wheel/keyboard for the range selector(hi/low range) and for a splitter (hi/low for each gear position).

TBH, if you don't understand after watching the video...either use a 6 or 7 speed transmission and set the pattern to "range" in the controls.

[Sandhill]

Far left forward is R and R LO. Far left back is LO and LO LO. You then shift the next gates like a four speed, hit your range button, and now 1st of the four speed is 5th, 2nd of the four speed is 6th etc. For each gear you have the splitter button, and so 1L, 1H, 2L, 2H etc.
If you find some plastic tubing (as I remeber 1/4" id ) and put it between the "pins" which separate the right most gates (labeled 7 and R on the plate) from the rest of the shift plate, you will "lock out" the right most notches, appropriate as the EF 18 speed only uses 6 notches, not the 8 that are on the TH8A.
It is probably the best shifter for ATS.

[ChyonE]

Originally posted by Sandhill:

Far left forward is R and R LO. Far left back is LO and LO LO. You then shift the next gates like a four speed, hit your range button, and now 1st of the four speed is 5th, 2nd of the four speed is 6th etc. For each gear you have the splitter button, and so 1L, 1H, 2L, 2H etc.
If you find some plastic tubing (as I remeber 1/4" id ) and put it between the "pins" which separate the right most gates (labeled 7 and R on the plate) from the rest of the shift plate, you will "lock out" the right most notches, appropriate as the EF 18 speed only uses 6 notches, not the 8 that are on the TH8A.
It is probably the best shifter for ATS.

Welp... Guess I'm gonna have to experience it myself since I'm kinda confused lol
Thank you for your help though. Can't wait to try it out
Might try youtubing it to see how people shift those things

[Fury6]

Originally posted by FPSKoda4:

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Welp... Guess I'm gonna have to experience it myself since I'm kinda confused lol
Thank you for your help though. Can't wait to try it out
Might try youtubing it to see how people shift those things

It's really not that hard, it just looks complicated. For the 18 speed, you have two gear sets: a High/Low *range* set; and a High/Low *splitter* set.

For this, you have a range valve and a splitter valve. You assign either buttons or switches for each of these as in-game functions - you can choose either momentary-action toggle (for keyboard or 'button' type switches) or bi-stable switch action (for toggle type switches) to suit your hardware.

The range set goes from - 1st to 4th in low-range, flip/press the range lever/button, then 5th to 8th in high-range going back over the same 4 slots on the shifter.

The splitter set switches between low-split and high-split in *each* gear, regardless of the range set.

Split gears are represented with L for low-split and H for high-split. So the gear sequence shifting through each gear goes:
1L -> split -> 1H -> split+shift -> 2L -> split -> 2H -> split+shift -> 3L -> split -> 3H -> split+shift -> 4L -> split -> 4H -> split+range+shift -> 5L -> split -> 5H -> split+shift -> 6L -> split -> 6H -> split+shift -> 7L -> split -> 7H -> split+shift -> 8L -> split -> 8H.

The pattern is a simple 6-slot H, with reverse and crawlers in the auxilliary slots to the left of the main 4-slot H.

R  1 3
|  | |
L  2 4

Most often, you won't need all gears available and probably most often you can start off in 2nd or 3rd gear, make full shifts (not splitting) into 7th or 8th then split the rest of the way up to 8H.

On heavier loads you might operate it like a 13 speed, making full shifts through low-range and then splitting all the way through high-range.

Generally, particularly for OTR, there won't often be a need for splitting through the low-range gearset.