Down Hill Braking on a Ford Chassis
Guru's, This may seem a silly question, but, on my DP when going down a long or steep grade, I just downshift my Alison to a lower gear and hit the exhaust brake as needed. I never have to use the ...
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Falcon35 wrote:
The new Ford transmission with tow haul program works something like an exhaust brake. When I approach a steep hill I punch the tow haul button and when it starts to speed up I push the brakes and it down shifts. I have traveled some roads with some real steep hills and have not had any problems.
I've got a new Thor on the F-53 chassis. Being that I'm always towing, with a dolly or trailer, for the most part, I leave it in the Tow/Haul mode and as soon as it senses the engine freewheeling, it shifts down automatically. Most of the time, it's mild pump braking and let them cool as described an above post. On one very long 7% grade, I had to manually shift down an extra gear to keep it where I wanted the speed.
