2012 Ram Exhaust/Engine brake question!

wilber1 wrote:

Grit dog wrote:

Bionic Man wrote:
I am not saying that the 68RFE shifts poorly. What I am saying is that these trucks (as well as those from the competitors) could improve by allowing a paddle shifter that would allow the driver to more easily and quickly choose their own gear.

If you haven't driven a vehicle with paddle shifters you really don't know what you are missing. They perform much better than a column shift with a button on the end that only limits the top gear the truck can use.

Have you ever sat in a Ram/Dodge pickup with a 6speed auto trans, either one?
Every one I've been in has a +/- button on the shifter that allows manual up and down gear changes when you put the shifter in manual mode.
Like a paddle shifter but not on the steering wheel.
Or are you just speculating for the sake of discussion?

The Ram ERS doesn't allow manual up changes, it restricts the gear that the transmission can shift up to. You can force the transmission to downshift but it upshifts in its own good time. It is a good feature but not a real manual mode. If you select 5 or 4 etc, it just turns the transmission into a 5 or 4 speed automatic.

Not the same at all and Bionic Man does know what he is talking about.

Well then I stand corrected. My apologies.
I know on the 2014 68rfe I had most recently, you could drop gears one at a time and limit the top gear before going into manual mode. Appeared to hold whatever gear you put it in, in manual mode without up shifting, but I do know that if you left "locked" in a higher gear in M mode and then slowed to a stop, it would downshift enough gears to not kill the engine and to get you going again albeit in 2nd or 3rd gear.

Is it possible that in M mode that it only holds the selected gear until getting into over rev territory and then forces an up shift if the driver doesn't recognize he needs to up shift or start wrecking stuff if the rpms keep going up?
Kind of like want it does on the low end of the rpm range.

Been years since I've been in the early 68re trucks so my memory could be slipping.