350 HP ICE vs. 350 HP Diesel?

dubdub07 wrote:

wny_pat wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:

dubdub07 wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:

JetAonly wrote:
Now on to the next part of the discussion. How much "Brakeing" HP does a gas engine develop. You know the kind of HP that keeps you from using your brakes down hill?

Who cares? They put brakes on a vehicle for a purpose. I use them. Never had a problem on any Western mountain ranges. :R

For safety sake I am going to chime in. This is NOT a correct statement. If I used my brakes only without my exhaust brake I wouldn't have a MH anymore as it would have been impailed in the side of a mountain or off a cliff long ago. There are statements that should not be made in general and this is one of them. Sorry, just making sure that those that don't know better don't come to my beautiful state thinking that the brakes won't fail them because if you are not REAL careful, they will.

Bill

It was a correct statement when you consider that many of us, me included, DO NOT have an exhaust brake and learn how to safely drive the mountains without one.

Makes me wonder how I survived my last twenty years of my commercial driving, hauling petroleum products, in the hills of northwestern Pennsylvania without a jake brake or any type of engine brake. Only once did I have the brakes get to hot to stop and that was my fault!!! But did get it stopped without mishap. To hear some of the experts around here, I should have died in a trucking accident long ago.

Look at the quote! They put brakes on a vehicle for a purpose and I use them. If you throw that statement out there and are heading down the west side of Wolf Creed pass figuring your BRAKES ALONE are going to do the trick with heavy weight, you are sadly mistaken. Everyone is an expert I guess, everyone but me. I don't think absolute statements do anyone any good at all.......

Yes, LOOK at that statement. We go up and down mountains all of the time and do not have an exhaust brake to assist us. We also have found out through YEARS of driving that we DO NOT need an exhaust brake to safely navigate the mountain roads. I guess it all depends on your own abilities and if YOU need an exhaust brake, then good for you. I said that I have brakes and I use them. Obviously I, and thousands of other drivers, have used their brakes properly and make it down the mountains with a fully loaded RV safely. If you cannot do that, and MUST HAVE your exhaust brake, then maybe you need to take a course to educate you on how to descend a mountain without an exhaust brake. Some day your exhaust brake may fail, and from what you say, you will be in deep manure.