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Tag: engine brake

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Share the road: What’s the engine brake’s purpose, and how do you use it?
Overdrive is starting a series of questions about truck equipment and the first is all about engine brakes. Call us today and learn more here on Overdrive.
March 2, 2020
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Updated Jake Brake on tap for 2020s
The new High Power Density engine brake will offer twice the braking power as the current Jake Brake and will provide improved engine braking capabilities at a lower rpm range.
September 28, 2017
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High Power Density engine brake
The High Power Density engine braking technology provides large displacement retarding power in small and medium displacement engines. It consists of two braking rocker arms and two collapsible bridges per cylinder, which enables a second braking event to occur during each engine cycle, by deactivating the main intake and exhaust events via the collapsible bridges […]
May 23, 2011
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Burt, Sally and a W900A
Trucking came to the foreground in the classic “Smokey and the Bandit,” and real truckers played no small part in racing their rigs; and the engine brake of today is developed.
January 4, 2011
In its May 1977 story on the making of “Smokey,” Overdrive noted that Director Hal Needham filmed the opening race at Atlanta’s Lakewood Speedway. This 1974 Kenworth W900A (top) is one of three used in the 1977 film. The trailer with the horse mural was made by Hobbs Trailers in Texas.
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