Speed didn't increase with downshift
My RV on 2010 Ford E350 V10 chassis has 30K miles. Every time I downshifted to 3rd to get the speed up on an incline, the rpm would shoot up but the speed hardly climbed with it. I would just take i...
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locster wrote:
I would just take it out of 3rd and back to D and really floored it to force it to downshift..
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here:h
You were in 3rd, weren't going fast enough so you upshifted into D, then mashed to pedal to the floor so you were in 3rd again? Why not just give it more throttle to begin with, and let the truck do the thinking. The 5R110 usually makes pretty good decisions. Keep Tow/Haul mode on so it will hold lower gears longer, and also provide grade-braking assist.
