No air pressure on start up

[Tom Warner]

Has anyone installed a Pac Brake on a cat 3208NA? If so where did you get it?

tom
1982 FC35 SB
Vernon Center,NY


At 08:56 AM 7/13/2005 -0700, you wrote:


>Harold wrote:
>
> > Curt,
> > Upham is about 100mi north of Sacto.
> >
> > FYI, both Jacobs and Pac breaks are the same. Just that Jacobs was
> > bought by Paccar.(Pac-Brake) I was mistaken about Cummins owning
> > Jacobs. Jacobs makes various versions of braking devices. The one on
> > my coach is a drive-line retarder.
> > Harold
> > '85WLFC35
> > Upham,Ca.
> >
>Not true. The Original Jacobs Brake is an Engine brake utilizing the
>valves and the Pac Brake is an Exhaust Brake utilizing a butterfly in
>the exhaust system. Jacobs does make various types of braking systems
>since the original patents have run out, but are the originator of the
>Engine Brake only. The others they have copied. The end results of the
> Pac Brake and the Jake Brake are basically the same in that they
>slow the coach but the Jake is very noisy while the Pac is very quiet.
>I have installed and used both and if given a choice today, would have
>the Pac Brake. It is less complex and are not outlawed in many places
>like the Jake Brake.
>
>George Lowry
>'95 WBDA 4203
>Spearfish, SD
> >
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