Strange Lever

[Mike Hohnstein]

That would be one way to characterize the down grade retarder. It functions
like electric trailer brakes, in a way.
The well marked grease zerk, if not covered with road grime is a critical
maintainence point. I'm greatful that my retarder works pretty well so far, my
chassis has roughly 170k miles.
Mike Hohnstein
Germantown WI, Myrtle ID
83FC35rb
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 11:25 PM
Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Strange Lever


So this thing is like a driveline breaking system?

Scott Waldy
'83FC35SB
Boise, Idaho

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Scott"
wrote:
>
> Lots of great posts on the Jacobs Driveline retarder. (that is what
is
> on our coach 86FC) BUT no one mentioned the need to grease the
bearings
> inside. When we got ours you could not even tell it had a grease
> fitting. Find it on the side of the retarder. Use a GOOD HIGH TEMP
> GREASE. I grease mine pretty frequently.
>
> I did the dummy thing last year on the way to RIV and left it one
by
> mistake when entering the highway, thought I was draging an anchor,
> (actually felt like a fuel filter cloggin up) It got hot and
smelled,
> when shot with a temp gun it was just over 300* got back underway
in a
> hurry and got air to it. No harm works fine. I use it in stop and
go
> traffic, to limit the use of the service brakes. Works great for me.
>
> ScottB
> 86FC 4sale
> SC
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Scott"
wrote:
> >
> > I have a Strange Lever mounted to the side of the shifter box.
The
> > lever goes into a small black box with numbers on the side. As
the
> > lever is pulled down, the numbers increase and the lever is
> internally
> > notched to stop on each of the numbers. Any clue?
> >
> > Scott Waldy
> > '83FC35SB
> > Boise, Idaho
> >
>





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