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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 04:21 PM
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Sooooo I was driving to work today and noticed that the lights in my Tach that show you what gear you are in were gone, the light that illuminates for the tow mode will still come on but the gear lights are MIA
Any ideas???? from anyone out there?
I'm 8000 miles in and have had not the first problem so I feel I should be lucky, but still a little confused as to where they went
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 04:25 PM
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Put the truck in gear and press the + button on the shifter. + turns the gears on and - turns them off. You must have pressed the - button without knowing it.
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by EpicCowlick
Put the truck in gear and press the + button on the shifter. + turns the gears on and - turns them off. You must have pressed the - button without knowing it.
+ button????
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 04:29 PM
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The +/- buttons on the stalk are gear lockouts. You'll see them.
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by EpicCowlick
The +/- buttons on the stalk are gear lockouts. You'll see them.
HA HA you sir are a genius That did the trick.
How do you do it?
Figure that stuff out that is? I was a ready to start digging for loose wires.
HA HA thank you!!!!!!!!
That was great it was liking having a mechanic on line you da man thanks
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 04:39 PM
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so you say gear lockouts, will that lock out gears? literally? I thought that was just for manual shifting. sorry if I sound like a dumb a$$ I am
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 04:40 PM
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HaHaHa...I did the same thing. It took me 30 minutes to figure it out....lol
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 04:42 PM
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HaHaHa...I did the same thing. It took me 30 minutes to figure it out....lol
cool now I don't feel so bad, nice
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by bodytech
How do you do it?
Figure that stuff out that is? I was a ready to start digging for loose wires.
Owner's manual; Table of Contents; Section labeled "Transmission". As easy as 1,2,3.
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 05:01 PM
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so you say gear lockouts, will that lock out gears? literally? I thought that was just for manual shifting. sorry if I sound like a dumb a$$ I am
Think of when you're trucking your trailer up a moderate sized hill and the truck keeps shifting between 6th and 5th gears. Some people find this annoying and use the - button to shift the transmission into 5th gear and stay there. In that scenario the truck will use only gears 1 - 5 and you will have locked out 6th gear.

The truck is loaded with these kinds of little easter eggs. Just wait until you see a PAUSE screen pop up over the top of everything and you can't figure out how to get it to go away...
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by EpicCowlick
Think of when you're trucking your trailer up a moderate sized hill and the truck keeps shifting between 6th and 5th gears. Some people find this annoying and use the - button to shift the transmission into 5th gear and stay there. In that scenario the truck will use only gears 1 - 5 and you will have locked out 6th gear.

The truck is loaded with these kinds of little easter eggs. Just wait until you see a PAUSE screen pop up over the top of everything and you can't figure out how to get it to go away...
PAUSE !!!!! Please do elaborate if you would
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 05:19 PM
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PAUSE !!!!! Please do elaborate if you would
I was going to wait until you posted your question so I would be called brilliant a genius again. There is a feature on the trip A & B computers that allows you to pause mileage accumulating when you're driving off-the-clock so to speak. Lots of people use the trip mileage to record reimbursable or tax-deductible mileage. But if you have to run a personal errand, you can pause the trip A or B and accumulation will stop until un-paused. I forget the button that toggles it off the top of my head as I never used it.
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by EpicCowlick
I was going to wait until you posted your question so I would be called brilliant a genius again. There is a feature on the trip A & B computers that allows you to pause mileage accumulating when you're driving off-the-clock so to speak. Lots of people use the trip mileage to record reimbursable or tax-deductible mileage. But if you have to run a personal errand, you can pause the trip A or B and accumulation will stop until un-paused. I forget the button that toggles it off the top of my head as I never used it.
brilliant you are a genius
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 07:28 PM
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My buddy bought a 150EB with the 10 speed transmission, I was loving that his showed the gears.. THANKS!! Now our SD does too..
 
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Old Jan 27, 2017 | 07:33 PM
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I mainly use the manual shifting for downshifting with the exhaust brake engaged. Works wonders for bringing heavy loads to a stop.
 
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