3.5 EB Engine Braking?
For those of you with a 3.5 Ecoboost and a 10spd, how do you manage the transmission on long downhill grades? Do you find that the tow/haul mode does enough engine braking on its own, or do you shift...
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Mickeyfan0805 wrote:ScottG wrote:BenK wrote:
Curious...how does the engine rev limiter function when engine braking ?
My assumption is that it will shift all the way down to the lowest hear, right ?
The puter will keep shifting up to keep it from over-revving.
OK - help a newbie out here. In my old 'burb I would simply put it in 2nd or 3rd gear to get the control I wanted and work my way down the grade. Now that I'm shifting to the f150, I'm trying to understand how this works with the newer tech.
So, how does the engine know what speed you are trying to maintain? In other words, how does it know to provide engine braking to keep me at 60 or 45? This is all new to me, but I'd like to understand BEFORE I'm traveling down a grade and trying to figure it out!
Thanks for indulging me.
If you are on cruise control it simply tries to maintain the set speed. Otherwise, it will not exceed the speed at which you took your foot off of the gas pedal. If you touch the brakes it gets more aggressive.
