- 1). Take your foot off the gas while simultaneously depressing the clutch pedal.
- 2). Allow your truck to coast and slow slightly, if possible.
- 3). Shift your truck into the next lowest gear from the one in which it was just in. For example, if you were cruising in fifth gear, slowly shift your truck into fourth. If you were in fourth, shift to third, and so on.
- 4). Slowly release the clutch. Your truck will likely lurch if it is travelling higher than the natural idle speed of the gear into which it has been shifted.
- 5). Allow the truck to normalize to its current gear. Normalization occurs when the trucks speed slows to match the natural idle speed of the gear into which it has been shifted.
- 6). Depress the clutch and shift into the next lowest gear, again allowing the truck's speed to normalize. This process should be repeated until your truck has been shifted all the way down to first gear.
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