Gear Vendor/Gear splitter

BarneyS wrote:
More gears would not necessarily help with slowing the rig down in place of an exhaust brake. It would in a gas rig but not in a diesel.
Going up it would probably help but not coming back down.
Barney

Really?!?!?!

& on what do you base that comment from?
How many years have you been driving Diesels?

Big Rigs?

You ever notice on mountains grades going down hills there are always signs reminding the Big Rigs to use lower gears.

I wonder why that is?

They both have their place I'm sure..

But my main experience is from big rigs with everything from 9 speeds to 13 speeds & with both Engine Brakes & exhaust brakes as well as big rigs with no aux brakes at all.

& in those cases, you basically slow it down & let the trans do most of the work.

That being said, I've never driven a pick up truck with a EB.