F150 vs 250
Considering replacing the old girl - 04 8.1 Yukon XL as her electrical gremlins and module failures are becoming increasingly frequent. Plan 1 had been max payload SCrew with max tow pkg but then saw...
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Volkov wrote:
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Less worried about going up than coming down. That remains the crux for me I think. How well does the EB engine brake on downhills?
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If you let it rev up it will brake. But when you're used to cruising at 1700rpm, allowing the engine/tranny to rev in first gear to 4500-5000rpm at ~25 mph is rather disturbing and noisy. Can't be that good for the drive train either. But it definitely works.
In our experience, 2nd gear and lower rpms didn't provide enough engine braking, and we cooked the brakes down that particular Appalachian trail.
We only had this issue once or twice on small roads in the Appalachians over the 25K kms we towed with the truck. But after the first couple of times, I avoided those descents. Now I don't have to with the new truck. On regular highways we never had an issue with engine braking.
