Destination

ricelake922 wrote:
On my class A coach which is a 1996 Monaco Dynasty as far as I know I only have drive, reverse and neutral. I guess I must be a troll as well as I only know how to use my service brakes or Pac man brakes to slow me down. How do I "gear down" without using the service brakes please?

Assume from your coach that you have an Allison 3000 series transmission.

Assume you have an Allison shift pad with the following in addition to D, R and N:

Mode
UP arrow
DOWN arrow

The down arrow allows you to select a lower gear.

If you have the two window Allison shift pad, the left window (or only window if you have the single window shift pad)indicates the "pre-select" gear. That is the gear toward which the transmission will shift as long as it will not under or over-speed the engine. SO:

At a stop light in drive it will show "6". Of course you are not in 6th gear, but you have told the transmission to up-shift toward 6th gear for you. Suspect when you turn on your exhaust brake, that window goes from 6th to some lower gear, with 4th and 2nd being popular choices. But any gear can be programmed for this function.

And, it is totally idiot proof. You could down arrow to first gear at 60 MPH and nothing bad would happen. The Allison would merely downshift as soon as it would not over-speed the engine in the next lower gear.

And, PLEASE, two things for EVERYONE: Particularly with newbies, how about benefit of the doubt. And newbies, don't have your feeling hurt quite so easily, you have to understand there there ARE trolls out there who glory in conflict.

AND

Please put what coach you have in your signature. Makes answers a LOT more relevant.