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Old 10-25-2009, 02:56 PM   #16
David Bott
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Not need it?!?!? OH MY!!! It should be the main thing you use to slow the rig down. If not, you will go through brakes quickly!

Example, you are coming up to and exit and would normally but your foot on the brake say in a car....however in the coach use the engine brake to slow yourself down and use the foot brake to get you stopped when you slow or need more stopping power. (IE, did not use the engine brake soon enough.) Once you get use to using the switch and see how it works, you will get the point of of it saves your brakes. (Not just on freeways, but any road you can come to a stop slower without braking until needed.) Doing this will also turn on your brake lights, so people do know you are braking.

More or less it uses the engine and the transmission to to slow you dropping the top most gear to be 2 so the transmission will back down in gears as it safely can thus slowing you without using the brakes.

It is also used to hold you back when going down hill.
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