No Engine Brakes Allowed? WTF!!
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From: CenTex
No Engine Brakes Allowed? WTF!!
"No Engine Brakes Allowed by order of City Ordanence!" Read a sign going into Llano,Tx. WTF?!
I'm just trying to figure out why a city would ban the usage of such a device.
I'm just trying to figure out why a city would ban the usage of such a device.
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From: Oxford, NC
I lived in a very small town in central PA mountions where the city council would not ban them. The place I rented was in a circa 1800 brick home/apartment with other brick homes across the street. The semis would come through and their D*MN "Jake" brakes would rattle the house and everything in it. They're fine for expressways but have no business in residential areas. (I am referring at least to semi's I have never noticed the use of the engine breaks on pickups)
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From: Calgary Canada
Yep, it's a noise issue. Also, since speeds in cities are usually slower, it's not a big safety problem using the wheel brakes.
I used to drive past a farmhouse out in the country that had a hand lettered sign which read "No Jake." It was years until I found out what it meant.
I used to drive past a farmhouse out in the country that had a hand lettered sign which read "No Jake." It was years until I found out what it meant.
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From: Vilonia Arkansas
It's not the fact that you need them at such slow speeds you get use to using it all the time and forget to shut it off.
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The worse offenders are usually ones who are... uh... compensating for... um... something... 
A properly muffled jake brake makes very little noise... Those "compensators" usually feel the need to run straight pipe, and a jake on an unmuffled engine can, in certain circumstances, be heard clearly up to 5 miles away.
I don't normally mind the signs, but when they're posted at the bottom of a 4-mile, 6% grade, they've clearly been placed by folks who don't know what jake brakes are used for, and why they're necessary. (the city of Vail, CO springs immediately to mind...)
-blaine
A properly muffled jake brake makes very little noise... Those "compensators" usually feel the need to run straight pipe, and a jake on an unmuffled engine can, in certain circumstances, be heard clearly up to 5 miles away.
I don't normally mind the signs, but when they're posted at the bottom of a 4-mile, 6% grade, they've clearly been placed by folks who don't know what jake brakes are used for, and why they're necessary. (the city of Vail, CO springs immediately to mind...)
-blaine
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From: Tax Happy Hanover Pa
Around here they've put up signs "No Modified Exhaust" and the neighbors would bitch when we went thru w/ our engine brakes on. But hey, they weren't modified. Came from the factory w/ it.
Now, the hollowed out mufflers, that's a different story......but damn they sounded good........
Now, the hollowed out mufflers, that's a different story......but damn they sounded good........
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From: Lancaster, MA
I live about a mile from a 2 lane highway that is mostly used by truckers. I love sitting out on my back deck and listening to the jake brakes coming down the steep grade off ramp into the truck stop. It gives me goose bumps, especially those older 6" straight piped Kenworths lol. There is no better sound like it. I know a lot of the surrounding towns have laws against it, but we don't.
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From: Millersville, MD
Originally Posted by Gage2502
Ok I know this is a dumb question but can you install a jake break on a 2005 V10?
Dont really know that much about them, also how do they work?
Thanks ~Gage~
Dont really know that much about them, also how do they work?
Thanks ~Gage~