Shifting without the Clutch? G27

[Spectre_Actual]

Is there a setting I missed?
Seems odd simulator that it dosen't simulate one of the most common things there is to driving a real truck.

I can drive anything, except an airplane don't care to.
I didn't say I was good at it.

[MillerMi10]

On one of the tabs in options it says all the steering wheel inputs etc.
Find the clutch one, click it and push the clutch fully down.
If you don't want the clutch, there is 3 options along the bottom, click unasign and click the clutch then you can shift without pushing the clutch down.
Hope this helps :)
Michael

[Spectre_Actual]

Yeah thanks!

[MillerMi10]

Originally posted by Death_SpecteR:

Yeah thanks!

No Problem :)

[DrtyDiesel]

That's one thing I wanted too, to be able to float gears.

[Ornery]

Bothered me also. Only ever used the clutch when stopping or starting. Thanks for the tip, Michael!

[Simple]

You can float gears. This guy's video has a good rundown on it:
https://youtu.be/IOhkliFhnn4

[Spectre_Actual]

Cool. I never knew what is was called lol.

[Spectre_Actual]

That video is good if you don't know what we are talking about.
I already know how to do it. Years ago I drove a mixer and asphault dump.
I meant how to set the game up to do it. Acctually I had a mod that did it but I can't remember which mod it was.

[Slippin' Jimmy]

Go into Options, Controls, scroll down to Shift Layout Behavior and select Advanced.

[Its All Zen]

Originally posted by Death_SpecteR:

Cool. I never knew what is was called lol.

It's called: floating, power shifting, and ruining your transmission. The sad truth is that most people just don't do it right. If you don't clutch 'out' of gear you are ripping the gear out which sends little metal shavings into your transmission line. I don't really care how many people argue the point on this one. The only way to be sure you aren't damaging your equipment is to clutch out and float in. Most diesel mechanics will agree: a very small portion of truckers who float do it right without damaging their transmission/gearbox. The good news is that, for the most part, you can float gears for over half a million miles before it becomes an issue. Since most bigger companies swap trucks every 500-700k miles... nobody really notices or cares.

[Spectre_Actual]

Yes it works now guys, thank you!

[Spectre_Actual]

Originally posted by platinumwyrm11:

Originally posted by Death_SpecteR:

Cool. I never knew what is was called lol.

It's called: floating, power shifting, and runing your transmission. The sad truth is that most people just don't do it right. If you don't clutch 'out' of gear you are ripping the gear out which sends little metal shavings into your transmission line. I don't really care how many people argue the point on this one. The only way to be sure you aren't damaging your equipment is to clutch out and float in. Most diesel mechanics will agree: a very small portion of truckers who float do it right without damaging their transmission/gearbox. The good news is that, for the most part, you can float gears for over half a million miles before it becomes an issue. Since most bigger companies swap trucks every 500-700k miles... nobody really notices or cares.

I didn't know that, I went through a few tranmission because of that very thing. I'm not afraid to say a bucked my first transmission, they never told me what happen just laughed at me and shook thier head. They were pretty cool really.

[DrtyDiesel]

Originally posted by platinumwyrm11:

Originally posted by Death_SpecteR:

Cool. I never knew what is was called lol.

It's called: floating, power shifting, and ruining your transmission. The sad truth is that most people just don't do it right. If you don't clutch 'out' of gear you are ripping the gear out which sends little metal shavings into your transmission line. I don't really care how many people argue the point on this one. The only way to be sure you aren't damaging your equipment is to clutch out and float in. Most diesel mechanics will agree: a very small portion of truckers who float do it right without damaging their transmission/gearbox. The good news is that, for the most part, you can float gears for over half a million miles before it becomes an issue. Since most bigger companies swap trucks every 500-700k miles... nobody really notices or cares.

Where are you getting your info? There quite a few rigs that have over a million miles on the stock transmission and have been floated. I will agree some don't do it correctly and can ruin the ♥♥♥♥♥♥, though if done correctly, you can float out and in with zero issues.

[Spectre_Actual]

I bet you those million mile rigs go into gear like butter.

[Spectre_Actual]

Originally posted by edwardteach:

Go into Options, Controls, scroll down to Shift Layout Behavior and select Advanced.

This is basically all I did to get it to work. I fiddled with the dead zone and the range of the clutch before that. I don't know if it makes a difference, but the mod truck I have now is real touchy about floating gears so I'm going to buy a standard truck and test it.