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I split 5-8 and engine brake is on high almost all the time. I turn it off in town, and on ice.
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03-18-2016, 05:37 AM
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Engine retarder brake. Its a switch on the dash with three settings. Its uses the engine to slow down the truck instead of the actual brakes.
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So how do you get a noisy or quiet one?
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03-18-2016, 06:21 AM
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The older ones were really noisy. I would imagine these days you would have to order one. Not all jakes are created equally either. Some are anemic and some are like the hand of God reaching down and slowing you. I like the latter, especially on big hills and mountains.
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03-18-2016, 06:50 AM
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I can think of one advantage to having manual shift in a car... 
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Control in icy conditions
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03-18-2016, 08:08 AM
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Here's a question for the double clutchers ( I'm not one ) why use the clutch to get out of gear ? If you remove torque on the driveline with throttle control it slides into neutral with 2 fingers.
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The key words there are 'throttle control'. If you do not have that, clutching will save the drive line.
I had to laugh when I first started taking my wife to be with me. She would ask what I was doing. When I asked what she meant she would tell me that she noticed that sometimes I would double clutch, then single, most times use it not at all. After heavy hauling for years I've gotten so that I'll use the clutch at certain times and other times not. Say for instance when your loaded and turning a sharp corner with a tri tractor,16 jeep,24 lowboy,8 booster, the drag is pretty good so it's handy to use the clutch sometimes. 😃
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03-18-2016, 08:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Roughneck12
The older ones were really noisy. I would imagine these days you would have to order one. Not all jakes are created equally either. Some are anemic and some are like the hand of God reaching down and slowing you. I like the latter, especially on big hills and mountains.
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Are you being serious?
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03-18-2016, 12:59 PM
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Might work fine for the highway drivers. Those would get torn off in about 4 seconds trying to drive in to a muddy location in the oilpatch though.
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03-18-2016, 01:03 PM
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That's what the jake is for. I've never used the clutch, but always shift with the jake
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Ever run an old 5 and 4, no synro in either? Wasn't much time for a clutch in there. It kept you pretty busy
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03-18-2016, 03:25 PM
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Ever run an old 5 and 4, no synro in either? Wasn't much time for a clutch in there. It kept you pretty busy
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Yep my first bed truck way back when was a five and a four....
Back then we did a lot of work elk river, hanlon, up and over crown hill..
Had split shiftin down pat back in the hills...
Miss those days havin a cold beer while takin tire chains off at the end of the lease road... Lol..
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03-18-2016, 04:26 PM
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Are you being serious?
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Yes. Why the incredulous response?
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03-18-2016, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by DiabeticKripple
I split 5-8 and engine brake is on high almost all the time. I turn it off in town, and on ice.
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This is the same with me. Grab full gears in low range then split in high most of the time. Depends on load weight and terrain, sometimes need to split in low and start out in bull low on hills etc.
I keep my jake on most of the time on high, what i'm used to.
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03-19-2016, 07:36 AM
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Yes. Why the incredulous response?
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So you really don't know how a make works?
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03-19-2016, 10:46 AM
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03-19-2016, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Roughneck12
The older ones were really noisy. I would imagine these days you would have to order one. Not all jakes are created equally either. Some are anemic and some are like the hand of God reaching down and slowing you. I like the latter, especially on big hills and mountains.
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Just so you know the noise level of a jake brake is not caused by the jake itself but by the exhaust system. Jake brakes can also be adjusted.
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03-19-2016, 03:17 PM
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The best retarder I've used is a Voith driveline brake. The Voith with a well adjusted engine brake will stop anything. The beauty of a Voith is it's quiet.
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03-19-2016, 04:24 PM
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How much can a long haul truck driver (non oil) expect to make in a year?
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Last year was my first full year driving for a living. I haul flatdeck for a Calgary based company around western Canada.
I made 65k. Not spectacular by any stretch but I've been told by many that thats pretty good for first year no experience.
We'll see....
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