Re: RC: Auto vs. manual for towing

["Truman Prevatt, PhD" <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

If you driving a diesel and don't have an exhaust brake of some kind -which
is usually not standard except on the big guys, it doen't really matter
- manual or not you won't have much compression braking.

Truman

BE wrote:

>  
> >  
> > A friend of mine came over long, winding hill, in "low" gear with her automatic. 
> > Even with her low gear, and using trailer brakes, she still burned out
> > truck brakes by bottom of hill-too scary.    
> > I once had a VERY close call in a similar situation with my automatic. 
> > I stopped about half way down this very  steep and long section of
> > curving road to check on a friend's rig whose brakes had overheated. 
> > I discovered when I stopped that mine were smelling and way too hot to
> > continue.  So sat and cooled for awhile and made it down without trouble
> > but too close for comfort. That same
> > "hill" fried the automatic on that same truck a couple of years later trying
> > to get my gooseneck over.  I then quit using that road until I got
> > my Ford diesel manual and it just flattens it out, going up or down! 
> > Not a problem!Betty

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