Flip side of free wheeling.B My uncles and father in the logging business
used something they called a "jake brake" to slow them on steep grades coming
out of the mountains with a load of logs.B I kinda understood this as
shutting down the valves in a diesel engine, so that engine compression did
the work of brakes, so even the water-cooled brakes on a truck would not
overheat.
This close to being right?
Obligatory TR content:B Who could live without TR valve clatter????
Terry Smith, '59 TR3A
New Hampshire
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