[ERF]

Hello everyone. Thank you for admitting me to your forum. I am fairly new to truck ownership, but have recently aquired an ERF ES6 fitted with a HIAB081 knuckle boom crane to use as a yard crane. I intend sometime in the future to shorten the chassis to make it easier to manouvre in yard. My question today is something else however. When starting off from stationary, when I depress the clutch I have to hold the clutch down for more than 10 - 12 seconds before I can engage gear. The gearbox is a 6 speed Eaton. The engine is a 6 litre 6 cylinder Cummins. Once on the move, upshifting is fine but it is impossible to downshift on the move. There is no gringing/grating/rasping of gears, simply the gear lever will not engage the gear, it resists my hand pressure. Is this a problem anyone on here recognises ?. Thank you in anticipation of some advise.