No engine brake

LBlack14 · 2025-08-12T21:45:27+00:00

Evidently this isn't as simple as it used to be??? I haven't done this in a while and now you have to go through Xoom or some shit, plus they charge you a fe...

Par4QC

LBlack14 No clue what you are referring to ...Xoom.
I have no problem transferring.....same process as it's always been for me.
Never a fee, unless you want 'instant', otherwise it takes a day or 2.

LBlack14

Par4QC It's weird. It went away, right after I posted this. Went back to normal. I don't know wtf happened.

sdandrea1

LBlack14 It's weird. It went away, right after I posted this. Went back to normal. I don't know wtf happened.

Fake news?

Par4QC

OMG....I started a post with an answer, but no topic?

Where's Rod???😲

And with the new title, I'm having flashbacks of the high speed semi trip down the backside of Monteagle in '72, what with not having one.

Walterjn

I'm confused...
This post makes no sense, and it needs pics.

Birdsboro

Having just completed a 3k mile road trip and seeing about a million of these signs......... wtf is this thread about?

LBlack14

Birdsboro 🤣🤣🤣

LBlack14

To this day, I don't know wtf it means!!

johnnydoom

What the fire truck. Well, not quite - but I decided to clean up my language about 30 years ago.

johnnydoom

I ignore the signs. Of course, there is no audible difference with a 1.8 liter Toyota Corolla engine😆. I’ve always wondered what was so bad about it, but the Google AI says that people don’t like the noise emitted by heavy trucks when it is done.🤷

Walterjn

johnnydoom I can see how the noise would get old. As long as that sign isn't on a downgrade I see no issues.

LBlack14

Walterjn they're always on a down grade, around here. If I remember the next time I'm up Monroe, I'll show you. I shouldn't have said they, I should have said it. It's the only one I know of, kind of around here.

azgreg

Par4QC

LBlack14 they're always on a down grade, around here.

If they are on a downgrade where there might be a few traffic lights, then it is bullshit. If the light is quick-change (like some can be), that truck cannot stop quick enough on it's own (foot braking).

Walterjn

LBlack14 I've seen more than a few, most of them are on the uphill side, so the driver has 1/2 a chance to prepare for the downside.

jsippy73

It's when truckers downshift on down hills which allows the engine to slow you which make all kinds of noise.

Par4QC

jsippy73 Nope.

It is a specialized braking system for the engine, not the wheels. No downshifting, just let off the accelerator (having the jake brake already set). This lets the engine compression 'relax', keeping a more constant speed instead of increasing....that is where the sound comes from......compression release. Keeps from having wheels/brake drums overheat, and sometimes catch fire, which they will do.

re: My mention above of going down the backside of Monteagle (TN).....I had no jake brake, and life was flashing by quickly as I headed for the gravel stopping pit....smoke was so bad I could not even see my trailer!! I walked around waiting for things to cool down, and as I looked over the edge there were several truck carcasses visible wayyyy down there.😲

Luckily, this happened in my much younger years when I had super control of my bowels.

jsippy73

Par4QC
I stand corrected.

jsippy73

On our recent cross country trip my son witnessed a truck going off an emergency run off. He was right behind the truck. That's got to be scary.