H476-USER MANUAL-FULL BOOK-ENGLISH

OPERATION

Shifting

In order to shift into gear, fully press the clutch pedal before shifting and remove your foot when shifting occurs. Do not hold your foot on the clutch pedal on driving conditions where operation of clutch is not required. Choose a lower gear during take-off to ensure that your clutch has a longer service life. In case of any load, take off with low range 1 on hills, and high range 1 gear on straight roads. CAUTION Do not take off with your vehicle when the vehicle is loaded and the transmission is in high range. Stop the vehicle completely to engage reverse. Wait for 8 to 10 seconds, and shift into reverse. Your vehicle’s transmission may be damaged if you try to shift to reverse when the vehicle has not come to a complete stop. Do not shift to neutral while driving down a slope. Do not take off with your vehicle when the transmission is in high range

Do not use reverse gear when the transmission is in high range. Do not use your vehicle in neutral. Transmission may be damaged as the lubrication inside the transmission while the vehicle is moved in neutral for a long time will be inadequate. Eaton ESO14409 Manual transmission and shifting

and in the high range when the latch is pressed upwards. • During the acceleration, to switch from the low range to high range: 1. Press the latch upwards in the 4th gear. 2. Depress the clutch pedal. 3. Select neutral. (Planetary gear set will be disabled then, and the transmission will shift to high range) 4. Shift the lever from neutral to 1⁄2 range and then 1/5 gear. Transmission will shift to 5th gear when it is in high range. 5. Slowly release the clutch pedal. 6. Leave the latch in high range. • Transmissions have a shift prevention mechanism to protect the transmission against incorrect shifts when the vehicle has reached a certain speed. These mechanisms prevent shifts to 1⁄2 range in certain speeds for low and high ranges, and shifts from high range to low range.

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It has 9 gears: 8 forward + 1 crawler gears. First 4 gears are called as low range, and the remaining 4 gears are called as high range. Switching between low and high ranges is provided by the up and down movements of the latch on the gearshift lever. As shown below, the transmission will operate in the low range when the latch is pressed downwards,

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