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(01-02-2017 )Rawze Wrote:  Seriously? - One or 2 seconds jake delay on a vehicle that weighs 80,000 pounds and has the response of a turd? , and you are worried about it?> -- really? -- That is a completely ridiculous cow-boy attitude crap way of thinking if you ask me.


Last I checked, My truck was for making money and not for more power, more this and faster that. I do not promote nor agree with people who are always looking for more more more and faster faster and faster. No money long term in it but instead only serves to stroke ones own ego and shorten the life of their equipment.

Thanks for the response on ability to change, and before I respond to that I want to thank you for the website and youtube videos to help guys like us and get us information and how to's that help us keep rolling. I have read your book as well and agree with most of it and I am not here to upset anyone or step on toes or hoop n holler about horsepower and running fast or xxx miles in a day etc.

I have mentioned more than once I have been happy with my stock 425hp for 8 years (Not looking for more HP or Speed or faster this or that) I also run a 86 freightliner FLC with a stock 400hp b model and a 81 KW W900 With a stock Big Cam 400 and last I checked I am the only one who drives any of my trucks and same as you their job is to make me money and they are all 30+ years old but do the job.

With that said they are all mechanical and run mechanical switches for the jake for instant response which is what I learned to drive and am comfortable with. I never hammer on the jake immediately after a hard pull up a grade, I always watch the pyro and let it breathe and cool (even worse on my engines with aluminum pistons) I get the logic behind the programming honestly I do.

Now referring to a truck being slow to react and this is where we differ as we live in different worlds of trucking, I do not understand your world and I don't expect you to understand mine. Yes these are big slow turds at 80K and at 120K+ which I do fairly often down single lane dirt road 8-10% grades 2 seconds without a jake a lot can happen, a lot can happen in that 2 seconds when someone pulls out in front of you even at 80K on the highway. Again I get the programming side and I will likely have to get used to some of a delay but all I am trying to do is get it to respond in a way I am used to and comfortable with. If that makes me a cowboy (guilty I haul cows on occasion too) or a hillbilly (guilty as well) then so be it I accept that, nothing about ego and if it shortens the life somewhat then it is what it is that's part of the application although dirt roads and heavy haul and quarry work do their fair share of that and believe me I understand the harder you are on things and the heavier your foot the more time you spend greasy....

Again thank you for the site, info, youtube vids and everything you do to help us. Not many would take the time to do so and as you have mentioned most that do have knowledge don't want to share it and play the holier than thou card. We might have a difference of opinions on things but I am here to try and learn what I need to keep an ISX on the road making me money.