Trailer Brake Gain
Hello All!! I am a fairly new member here. My family and I just recently returned from our inaugural 3,000 mile trip to Yellowstone with our new rig. We returned home by way of Mt Rushmore. From Cody ...
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Lynnmor wrote:
This stab braking was taught to truckers many years ago and pertained to air brakes. It does not matter how you play with the brake pedal, the same amount of heat will be generated to slow the vehicle a given amount. Repeatedly super heating and then cooling the brakes will gain you nothing.
Sure it will gain you something - brakes in an emergency. Say you're going down a 10% 4 mile hill. Break and release method means 1/2 of the time you will have cool brakes. Using them going down means you may have say brakes that are already 1/2 way to the fade point. Now say you get cut off or something happens 1/2 way down that hill. With brake and release you have a lot more headroom before your brakes overheat and fade. If you use them and keep them warm you may very well be overheating them in an emergency situation.
