governed or not governed

I have driven both, and when heavy on hills I cant tell a difference in the power, both slow down.

 

Your governor will not effect hill climbing directly. It will lower your speed at the bottom of the hill, so you will have to shift sooner while going up. Since you are starting at a slower speed. But does not effect your trucks power.
On the other hand many company's get the trucks power turned down when they get them. They lower the torque and HP to lower than manufacturers levels.
This will cause a lack of pulling power on hills.

 

you also have some trucks like the ones in our fleet that are rpm governed at 1500 rpm im lucky mine isnt but that also imo has a lot to do with hill pulling capabilities..

my truck will run up to 2500 rpm its nice cause although im runnin 65 which is our governed speed i can shift 1 down b 4 the bottom of the hill and be able to hold that gear a lot longer without shifting and be able to make it over most small med hills without having to shift any further...

i love my cat.... lol.... thing seems to pull balls out compared to the cummins and detroits in our company..

 

It will if you have a 65 mph governed truck & the driver all ready has hit foot to the floor.... There won't be any room to spool up the turbo to pull the hill

 

That is true as well Mr. Red.
Actually I remember making that same comment in a thread a long long time ago.
It just did not quite fit the question, so I left it out. Did not want to confuse anyone.
I have a tendency to do that on a regular basis when I start to get into mechanical crap on here lol.

 

You could down shift.

 

So your going to put that kind of strain on your transmission?

Lets see.... Your governed at 65 mph. Your traveling at 65 mph. If you downshift, the only thing your going to achomplish is possibly exploding your transmission.

 

Well, I would wait until my RPM's were down. You do what you want, but then my truck isn't governed, or, I should say, it is at 127 mph.

 

turbo's bahahhahah couldnt help it bud