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<p>[QUOTE="Diesel Dave, post: 1788484, member: 37930"]Someone mention jakes here, I good way to get experience going downhill, DON'T USE THE JAKE BRAKE ? If you start smoking the brakes, your goin to fast or fanning the brakes. I remembered when i first started driving, The truck had NO JAKES and I was grossing 80k !!!! Let me tell you something, you learn real fast how to gear down a hill. Anyways, half of the trucks these days, the jakes don't work the way they should.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Diesel Dave, post: 1788484, member: 37930"]Someone mention jakes here, I good way to get experience going downhill, DON'T USE THE JAKE BRAKE ? If you start smoking the brakes, your goin to fast or fanning the brakes. I remembered when i first started driving, The truck had NO JAKES and I was grossing 80k !!!! Let me tell you something, you learn real fast how to gear down a hill. Anyways, half of the trucks these days, the jakes don't work the way they should.[/QUOTE]
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