Jake Brake Installation

[Gregory OConnor]

Curt, you have the most fun and obvious large attributes. I hang off of cliffs
in my bobcat tethered to our old auction crane, Ride shotgun to Mexico on
orphanage Christmas runs, Call Tim's Dad Dad. but don't have the attributes to
depend on a jake to stop. I could never descend that hill any faster than
35mph.
I worked a job on a hill in Lake Elsinore (view of it off 15/railroad) the 8%
grade non allowable retarder (residential area) cause me to go so slow down that
a street sweeper passed on one descend.

Greg of Tim&Greg
94pt slow down hill

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Curt Sprenger
wrote:
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> Drove the bus up/down Cajon Pass this morning. The Jake Brake works great.
> Heading for home I crested the Cajon Pass in top gear and left it there.
> Used the service brakes 4 times in the first 6 miles going down the 6%+
> grade. Kept the coach at 65 mph. The Jake is much better then the
> transmission retarder, and the trans. temps.are cooler too. With the
> retarder I'd need one lower gear and 10 to 15 mph slower and use the service
> brakes often.
>
> The 8V92 had a little more power climbing the Pass, got another 5 mph. Valve
> and fuel adjusting made a difference.
>
> Curt Sprenger
> 1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
> Anaheim Hills, CA
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> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Fred Hulse wrote:
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> > 
> > Hi Curt
> > You will definitely know the change when you get just past the
> > Silverwood/Wrightwood turnoff.
> > That is one of the most deceitful climbs I know of.
> > Fred & Jeanne Hulse
> > Morristown Arizona
> > 1997 Wanderlodge WLWB41
> >
> >
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