Strange Lever

[Mike Hohnstein]

You seem to be a little too critical. I believe I said, "works like electric
trailer brakes "IN A WAY" and I have one more reason to hate Canada.
MH
----- Original Message -----
From: Wilhelmus Schreurs
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Strange Lever


Mike:
Not so at all.
Electric trailer brakes actually has a puck that rubs on the drum which is
attached to the brake shoes, which in turn stops the trailer, so
electrical/mechanical/mechanical, yuk, lots of wear and maintenance.

With the Jacob's driveline retarder, it is electricity which creates a
magnetic field to slow down the vehicle. there are no rubbing parts. Maintenance
is very simple, cleaning, checking of contacts and greasing.

One thing which Jeff Miller alluded to, there is no connection between the
driveline retarder and the rest of the system , acceleration or braking. Gosh
one of the things when I get my BB home, I will look at installing circuitry
that will either allow the brake to be applied or disengage it when the throttle
is applied.

Bill
84FC35SB
Terrace, B.C.

Mike Hohnstein <MHOHNSTEIN@...> wrote:
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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