Going downhill...

Enter town S-L-O-W-L-Y, just like you crawled down the hill.

Just for effect, I would try to catch the red light and bury that city cop in brake smoke for fun (if the wind was right).

 

A-firm, weight is a very important variable for which technique to use. Point taken...

 

Slow down BEFORE you start down the hill....

 

well you can take the word of an "expert" icy hill driver from Indiana, or........ some dumba** that has been running the Rocky Mountains and the northern winter ice roads. (total time driving 25 years) while I do use the Jake on the ice roads under some conditions, there are times when it is not a good idea. Ice can actually give decent traction when it is very cold, like -20 or colder. less than 10 degrees below freezing its way more slippery. that being said if I have ANY doubt about stopping/slowing turn the jake OFF. I do not care heavy or light. one thing I was told 30 years ago, brakes do not stop your vehicle, brick walls stop your vehicle, and TRACTION BETWEEN YOUR TIRES AND THE ROAD. now lets say you have 25% of normal traction, should you depend on the reduced traction of the drives(possible jackknife) or the much more stable traction of all 18. as long as your speed is appropriate you can maintain a steady pressure all the way down any hill. that speed is such that at a 10-20 psi application you can hold or slightly reduce speed. it is a lower application than when you are snubbing. try a body job with m-11 road is made of ice takes a 90 degree turn down another cutline. all I did was lift my foot the jake cuts in so fast and hard the engine stalls.(wait its electronic it won't stall, WRONG) ESSENTIALLY JACKKNIFING WITH NO TRAILER AND STALLED ENGINE no POWERSTEERING eeeeeeek. IT WAS KINDA EXCITING


one thing about ice drive very smooth no sudden moves with steering, no sudden or hard braking, gentle long application, basically you do not want to upset the chassis in any direction

 

Not if you are in a low enough gear. Let the engine hold it back, not the brakes.

If 6th gear is revving too fast, that means you started down in a gear too high for the grade. If you start upshifting, you are going to have a runaway truck before you know what happened.


You are not supposed to rely on the abs. That is there to help in an emergency stop. As far as I'm concerned, they invented abs because people didn't want to learn how to drive.

Apparently you aren't paying for the brakes, and don't care that you can't stop nearly as well after you cook your brakes like that.

I wouldn't be giving that advice to someone that has to stop on the grade. Experimenting like that is for the open road.

I agree with that.