Downshift or exhaust brake?
I was just thinking after reading a post about gas vs diesel trucks where somebody mentioned they liked diesel because of the exhaust brake. I've never had a diesel, always gas. If I come up to a long...
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4x4ord wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:
Towing this weekend I will also look.
An experiment that might teach us something while your Ram is grade braking would be to watch your turbo boost/engine brake gauge while going down a grade at about 3000 rpm and your foot right off the throttle. Then just touch the throttle and see if the gauge suddenly displays boost instead of braking. I'm guessing that the computer is deciding which gauge to display based on throttle position.
I am thinking you do not know what you are talking about.
One of the gauges in the EVIC/DID is a gauge that goes from exhaust braking HP to boost. It slides back and forth, however does not go two directions at the same time. RAM does not seem to think they would both go up at the same time. Again, the engine has to be WORKED to create boost.
