I drive with it on all the time unless I'm in city limits or neighborhoods in the mornings or evenings/nights where I turn it off if I don't really need it just to be nice. Most of the trucks I drive it doesn't interfere with the shifting but on one it comes on if there is any slack on the throttle so in that truck I drive with it off so it doesn't mess up my gear changes. I don't know what jake-shifting is.
Oh, on slick roads I leave the thing off.
jake brakes; when to use them, when not to
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When coming down grades like the Grapevine,I pick a gear that the truck likes and holds speed w/out using any brake, only the jake, and yes I have used it in December in BC, Yukon Territory and Alaska
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I use a jake brake when I have a heavy load in city if driving and a light turns yellow and I need to stop quickly. Try to avoid it most of the time tho
On the highway if I see traffic stop immediately...
Also down hills with a load.....
Other than that no jake for meLast edited: Jul 23, 2017
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I'll take a shot at this. When you have established a balance with the jacobs brake against any mountain downgrade, and I mean any. You will be able to get to the bottom without touching your brakes keeping them stone cold against the need to use them which will mean that you are in trouble.
First learn how to run a hill without jakes. Then run em with. If everyone passes you trash talking you? Let em by. You worry about your own self going down. -
I drive an auto Volvo. If bobtail or empty I leave em off. When loaded I generally drive with em on auto at cruise +2mph.
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