Myself i have run Jake brakes on trucks since 1970 and found them to be vary useful. BUT i was never BILLY BIG RIGGER that had to show off and be loud with straight pipes . I grew up in a small speck on the map that was a speed trap over load trap and had a muffler ordnance . My first car WAS NOT the one i wanted even though i paid for it i wanted the 58 Ford but my MOM insisted that i got the 56 Ford Rag top and mom and dad were the ones signing for it . My Mom knew the org. owner and yes it was a little old lady school teacher , the down side of this was that the 56 had Hollywood mufflers and 292 t/bird special .You could hear that Ford coming on a quiet night just driving 55 three miles out of town . Now my dad was a Buckeye Bear just up till i bought that car before he took a new better job. Dad even told me that it was a little loud so go easy . Well the night turn cop of Podock Juntion for what ever reason had it in for me , why i have no idea as i never went over the speed limit in town and drove easy , up at the end of my street lived the chief he did not have a problem with my car 9 doors north of me lived the cop that worked the 3-11 shift Bob did not have a problem with me or my car BUT harry did . I worked for a vary loarge construction company that had it's main office and main shop and yard on the west side of town . On the weekends i would drive down to my old home town and run around with my old friends and the house rules were on the weekends i had best be walking thru the door at mid night not 24 hundred hours and 30 seconds . and the vary first weekend i came home Harry stopped me and gave me a written warning and i was late coming thru the door . Dad was NOT happy and the next morning he and walked up to the Chief's house and we had a talk Chief asked if i was speeding and being loud coming into town , i was not he came down and listen to the car and said as long as i did not race the engine i was fine by him . Well the Chief had a talk with Harry that even made matters worse and he would lay in wait on friday and satrurday nights and the game of cops and robbers was on as i had options as how to get to the house and i started coming home from all four sides of that town and try and make the drive and get the car parked shut down and lay across the seat till Harry went away as he would drive by the house shinning the spot light on the car with each pass. This game went on for a year till i found the 61 and traded the 56 . That one was a six cylinder three on the tree ----- for four days , till i dropped the 352 dual quad in it with vary quiet mufflers and even when i pulled tyhe 352 out and dropped in the hand built 390 tri power i ran MUFFLERS . Then on into my early trucking days i took great efforts to be quiet as then the last thing in needed was a cop to look up and get nosey . when one is hauling heavy one does not need to draw attention to ones self . Or goal was to haul heavy run fast and look light , and the onset of us usen the jake brakes on the roads we ran on was a huge brake saver and time saver as now you could drive down a hill loaded under complete control and still have cool brakes to stop with . When you had loads on over 120000lbs and the oold engines did a far better job on hold back , The old double breasted Yamhaws had the best hold back going down the hills then the Cummins , then the cat's and the macks sorta did a little hold back and made some noise . then into the hauling of the big heavy and ugly loads of heavy haul , some loads were not that heavy by my standards but they were over just the same , One hual i did over two years was haqul new tire pressses from where they were built to Wilson N/C . They were only 68000 and change 11 foot 11 inches and three quarters wide and 14 4 inches tall on the trailer . For the most part the trip was pretty much the same till ya got to N/C then god only knew what way they wanted ya to run. With a turned up Cat 550 set to 740 it flattened out the humps and bumps and i could run the hills on I 77 just as fast as i wanted , descending down fancy gap with out touching the brakes was just a matter of dropping down to seventh over or 10th how evr you want to call it on a 13 speed and set back and let her ride and drop off at 65 MPH and hold it t hat , if i needed to drop a little more i would turn on the fan and drop another five , yep going from the automatic setting on the engine fan to manual would put that much more drag on and engine . Back in 1980 i got twenty years of my life scared out of me going across the P a . Pike one night with m y 77 4300 I H eagle , that was a FAST truck and would plum eat anything on the road , even more pony power then the 550 cat turned up had . I had a load on for Philly and like always i was heavy . I was running about 80 east bound coming into the one tunnel that had a sharp curve to the left once you came out of the tunnel , knew it was there as this was not my first time across the Pa. pike , as i was getting to the end of the tunnel and lifted my foot off the go pedal and expecting the jake to come on and start bringing me down to the 65 MPH to make the curve as it came on a bright blue white flash under the dash lit up the floor and NO JAKE BRAKE and down the the brake pedal i went hard and out of the tunnel i came standing on the brakes and looking at that mountain , how i made the turn i have no idea But i did know i was in trouble as i already had smoke coming off all the brakes and there was still a lot of curves and mountain to go down with a run away . Thank god everybody back then used there C B's as they got out of the way while i rode it down to the bottom keeping it up on all 18 . Once i got her whoaed i found that the FUse blew . Fixed that problem and readjusted the brakes cleaned my shorts and went on and even on my lest go fast truck i ran a muffler and only one five inch pipe . My 77 was a sharp truck but i always called it a little truck because big trucks have dual pipes and are loud . If one took the time to read where as most don't read or can't read wright on the drivers door piller it state on rivited metal or stick on tag that removal of the noise control divese or emissions is forbidden by federal law . Once again no one pays attention to laws. Same as the guys with the Harley's they have to be loud . Between all the old heavy equipment i ran as a kid all the gun fire incoming mourtor rounds artillery and being with in a mile and a half of B52 strikes my hearing is toast and i myself do not like LOUD.
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