Jake Brake From Hell Compilation 2021 

Growing up with I-94 literally in my backyard, I fucking LOVE the sound of jakes

Do you have the link of the last one?

It’s oddly comforting

😂😂😂

And mourning dove as the sun rises 🥺

Love that sound in the distance at 3am getting up to piss

it wasn't satan

You were on 7mile moutian!!! I know that trip to well

@@peteykunes7630 I drive in Michigan/Indiana/Ohio and it’s mostly flat so that was new to me

@@blauer2551 I have a old 7.3idi 5speed an I went down with the trailer one day an threw in it 3rd. Sounded just like the Jake's. Had people confused as all hell. But I love it.

So? You want a Nobel Prize? Naw Im just playing thats cool.

@@kevindelgado7252 I’ll take it, doesn’t $500,000 go to the recipient as well? The category could be mechanical sound induced smile.

not quite; activating the jake brake opens the exhaust valves but that just allows all the compression to escape and therefore it can't turn the crankshaft anymore, resulting in a slow-down

@@CB-el3sv i gotchu, but i think youre missing the key word in the name which is compression *release* brake. The engine slows down because all the compression in the cylinders is vented (see: released) to the atmosphere. I think you have the spirit of the answer right but im fairly certain its just a bit off. Sorry if im sounding condescending btw

It doesn’t keep the exhaust valves open through the whole compression cycle, just opens them right when the “bang” would normally happen. So the engine has to do the work of compressing the air but doesn’t get the push back on the cylinder from the compressed air, at least that’s my understanding of it.

I'm glad everyone here knows how they work. I tried to explain it in the simplest way possible so that people who had no idea how they work could understand it.

Normal Diesel engines don’t have a butterfly valve on the intake, like a gas engine does. So when you let off the accelerator, even with no fuel being supplied to the engine and causing a detonation, a Diesel engine still compresses the air in the cylinder which is transferred to the crankshaft as energy, which causes little to no engine braking. So a Jake brake causes the exhaust valves to open very near TDC, which releases the compressed air in the cylinder to the atmosphere(out the exhaust system). It turns a Diesel engine effectively into an air compressor.

lol

Got all them horse pressures stored in that power barn.

Simple minded people are amused by noises...makes them feel macho too

@@chancewilkins3320 you must be super fun at parties bro

@@chancewilkins3320 it's true When I hear things go brrrt I'm happy

lol

Chronic Pancreatitis, too.

🤣🤣

Very important to release right before top dead center to avoid a run away 🤔😂

Did the same trip many times. The grape vine back in the fifties. The state had water fountains so people could refill their radiators and also get a drink for themselves. The climb in various parts of THE VINE was brutal, same with the down grades going down. Lots of them were 6 degrees or more and many had run away truck ramps. The uphill pace was so slow back in the day that the drivers would often step out of the cab and ride the running board just to cool off especially in summer. Jake brakes were common as were the jimmy diesels with the blowers, what a sweet sound that made.

@@timmayer8723 For me it was the 60's. I remember overheating and having to sit by the side of the road what seemed like days. One time we had to get water from a irrigation ditch in Dixie paper cups and towels because everything was full of food and drink since we were on our way. That may have been the same trip all out suitcases that were tied on top of the station wagon came loose and all our and cousins clothes went flying all over the interstate. My Uncle Jack always carried a bag of water hanging in front of the grill of his truck. We always took route 99 back then and we always stopped at Lyle's Truck Stop in Tulare, CA. Just recently I talk to my cousin that was the only thing to a brother I had. We are the age of the Grandparents back then and my kids are the age our parents were. One trip home I will never remember we listened to congress taking roll call vote to impeach Pres. Nixon. Later after we were home I saw him board Marine 1 for the last time. Really something the things that stick with us.

deisel exhaust and the fuel itself doesnt smell the same at all. these days it smells toxic, like as toxic as all the hippies want us to think it is, (they want it to be as toxic as plutonium, it is not.) all the good stuff is gone . we have only memories.

i love reading stories like these. thank youu

The DEF makes the exhaust smell bad now. Today's Cummins exhaust smells like vinegar and I hate it

Turbo hands down lol

Turbo!

Turbo

Turbo...yes...Jake if it's done just right

That whisle!!

I open the windows just to hear it

@@Sunofmungo that, and the whe big turbo whistle

Party pooper

That was my dad, tri axle Mack and Ford ltl dump body, with a “coffin” over cab box, stubby exhaust straight piped Cummins right at cab level, yeah his hearing isn’t the best and he worked about 30 hours a day running from mine to plant

@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 lol good one there’s only 24 hours in a day but we get what ur trying to say

You must be a weirdo! How can you not like a jake brake sound?

Mannn!! Everybody needs a grandfather like yours!👊🏻 i never got to see my grandfather, he was also a trucker, a big time trucker!! Love From INDIA my dude💪🏻❤

The Jakes are vented to the air. Hence the noise. It's done on purpose.......you also do not have to use the exhaust brake to slow down. Unless your preference is to buy new brake pads or use the ramps, to each his own I suppose.

@@DickShooter There's no reason why you wouldn't be able to use mufflers in the exhaust and still have the braking force of the Jake

@@DickShooter There's no reason why you wouldn't be able to use mufflers in the exhaust and still have the braking force of the Jake

@@bene5431 loud things exist, yes.

Probably an automatic transmission

I'd put my bet on it being a synchron-clutch manual. It doesn't need rev matching

Thats in South Africa

This is called engine braking, that’s not really how they sound unless they engine breaking without stopping using the brakes.

@@ulucio86 I realise that buddy... beena lorry driver for 42 years lol... Still love the sound. We call it an exhaust brake

@iLikeOldStuff what do you mean? In the UK we refer to big American cars or trucks as yank tanks

@iLikeOldStuff wow that's very interesting buddy. Thank you for that ..... ❤

@Saul_badman hahaha hilarious the yank tank at Rektumtaucher im ded

I was just thinking of this LOL. I'm not even a trucker or anything, just randomly stumbled on this vid and I'm really liking it!

I do it, BUT don’t use the high setting. Save the brakes for when they are really needed. The less they are used, the longer they last. Extra couple of days of revenue, extra safety for motorists and me.

Maybe you should save the Jakes for when you really need them. They weren't designed for use in parking lots.

@@gregoryhodge9452 specifically the truck stop parking lots. Otherwise I say go ham!

They're designed to release compression creating an engine brake used to maintain or slow vehicle speed with minimal use of service brakes... how does that exclude parking lots or running bobtail? Not saying to do it all the time no matter what.... buuut technically one's not incorrectly using it in a parking lot or runnin bobtail just because it's something you don't like or find stupid.

Isx has the loudest jakes. Sounds like shotguns firing out if the pipes

If you need jakes in a town/city, you’re driving too fast in the first place.

@@josephmcgahee7302 you should see Utah...major industrial sections, accessed, through neighborhoods. No joke...

If you see the sign and end up getting a ticket and most likely a full DOT inspection that's on you.

You guys, obviously, don't know about me and rules...

Gotta love sound of yourself taking a shit

At least I get to see a few in service on gen sets. And hopefully I'll hear that town leaf pickup vehicle with one ,I didn't hear it last year I hope it's ok

My friend sold his house cause the new neighbors complained about his truck weekly to local police. They had been there 15 years then moved cause of the neighbors. It was a shame

@mississippi revolt yup nice family to but he would come home few nights a week late and they always bitched he just drove it normal. Or when coming home from a long haul after a week or so.

Always a disgruntled neighbor no matter where you live. People are not neighborly anymore. I lived on 40 acres and had a bitch for a neighbor. Now I live in the hood, lol and nobody bothers me

@@stilltrucking3070 That's awesome. My neighbors here are cool we all get along but last place I lived they would leave notes on my truck cause I went to work 5am and my pickup truck I guess woke some people up I lived in a townhouse community with a buddy I hated it.

To me, my Jake is a safety feature of the truck. Some kid runs out or something at least when I let off the gas I'm already in motion to slow down.

Yeah but maybe not too early

Nothing like the sound of shitting yourself

@@gregallen7586 any time is a good time

Sounds like (sniff sniff) …victory.

There were cars in this video?

Not to mention how terrible that particular truck sounds.

Dash lights off please.

Me too bj

Brake not Break that means something is broken.

Impressive I hope you do proper upkeep on them still, scary experience hitting the brake and finding out there isn’t any stopping power

hey if you don't want to hear it don't live next to a 6 miles of downgrade.

@@JeremiahDouglas who tf said they didn't wont to hear it?

@@jeanclaudevandam8232 i don't know the same people who call me in when i have to run my reefer and almost get arrested cause i tell the cops i can't move i haven't finished my break

@@JeremiahDouglas Honey you make a living fk what others say. Keep hitting them Jakes I will be hitting mine too

@@jeanclaudevandam8232 alrighty big hugs rachael=)

I drive a straight piped n14. Phone conversation while driving in the mointains?? Forget about it

Not always. sometimes they keep you from hearing something you need to hear to keep yourself out of trouble.

They think it makes them macho and cool...

31 now, love them jakes. 👍

Like we used to say in the Marines there’s always that 10% who don’t get it

I chuckle when I see that.

My Jake switches are on all day and never once have they come on when shifting only bc i know how to drive. It drives me absolutely crazy when drivers have Jake's on between shifts

Diesel fuel requires a lot of heat so it won't catch on fire from the exhaust

You can shift faster that way thus going through the gears quicker and theoretically saving some fuel. But I have to admit it does sound cool

They’re called jakes because they were invented by a company called Jacobs Vehicle System inc Jakes only slow down the engine and that braking power is only applied to the rest of the vehicle when the clutch is engaged (clutch pedal released) when your clutch is disengaged (clutch pedal depressed) only the engine is being slowed and that lets you rev match faster. Therefore shifting faster, losing less speed while shifting, and saving fuel. Fun fact Jake brakes do not use any fuel at all. Edit Fun fact two, some modern trucks with automated transmissions also use engine braking to be able to shift quicker. Also edited for clarity. I can make a video explaining some of these things if people happen to be interested.

These guys are using the Jake to bring down the rpm of the motor quickly to shift quicker while floating through the gears (shifting without the clutch). The downside is it does slow the truck down a little between gears. If they were to just stay on the throttle slightly between gears it wouldn't engage but they would have to wait slightly longer to shift while maintaining their speed. 6 to one, half a dozen to the other.

@@bobwilliams3502 I'm a mechanic so not as good at it as our drivers but they go threw gears quicker all you hear is wruup, wruup, wruup, wruup no long pause inbetween when shifting just the engine pulling. I got the impression a lot of these guys were low hours showing off.....lots of room to improve.

U r rite on dom. Jake on upshifting is a rookie hot shot trick and shows stupidity. But that's normal now

I think you were hearing the Detroit 2 stroke song. Jakes only used for braking assist

@@deere7227 I think you're right

Us mechanics don't much care for the ISX. The newerQSX 15 is a much better design. That old N-14 was a good engine but it had it's share of problems. And all the 855 based engines are a PITA to change an air compressor on.

@@michaelvrooman5681 I've been a diesel mechanic for 20 years N14 and 855 Cummins are my absolute favorite engines to work on . I learned in big cams and I love them .

@@dave0z96 i hate pulling the fuel pump, compressor and accessory drive on the 855 based engines to reseal the cam followers. And the old 400 low flows are a P.I.T.A. to troubleshoot cooling system problems on.