brakes and she stopped ala Fred Flintstone. But those were the good
old days as she said. Her dream was to geat a "beater" truck with a
log for a front bumper and just plow through traffic. She was not a
patient woman with that cigarette hanging from her mouth - God bless
her soul!
DNA and loving my mother aside, I think she may have fibbed a bit
along the way about walking 10 miles every day in the snow to
school :-)
A good RV course can help teach the difference behind "riding" the
brakes, and using them properly so they remain safe, last a long
time, and don't glaze. Oddly cheaper RV's have less daily maintenence
concerns than the air-brake equipped models. And it's not that one is
better than the other - it's all weight and engineering driven. There
are good and bad hydraulic systems, just as there are good and bad
air systems.
I've "heard" a lot of trucks leaving their exhaust brake on all the
time as of late. (This is not a Jake brake which is the louder engine
version.) The key is knowing your RV systems and caring for them
properly. There's nothing as comforting as an engine break on a down-
hill grade. If you listen to your RV, like you do your dog, your
transmission will be thanking you for that exhaust brake. Nothing
like sharing the work load :-)
It's really all very zen. It's like the question. If you aren't
there, does the forest tree that falls and crushes your RV make a
noise?
Happy camping everyone :-)
Mark, Alex and Toby (WOOF WOOF)
--- In Diesel-RVs@yahoogroups.com, "Gordon W." <gwav8s@...> wrote:
>
> Funny that you used the same words I've used several times about
the
> new brakes and the noise they make like a mule in pain. You must
> have once been a farm boy like me.
> Creeping along in traffic this past Monday I actually had a woman
> get out of her car and stomp back to me and ask why I kept blowing
> my horn. She thought that god-awful noise was my horn.
> I've also been told it is "just normal". If anyone finds a fix for
> this embarassing noise please post it.
>
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