Broadly speaking, Jake Brakes and retarders both work as secondary braking systems, but they're used for slightly different purposes. A Jake Brake is best for rapid deceleration, particularly on ...

When you engage the Jake brake, the exhaust valves open at the top ... By allowing the engine to take on some of the work of slowing down the car, they use the brakes less frequently and less ...

Who is this 'Jake' and why does he get a break? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. Get access to hundreds of episodes in the Car Talk archive when you sign up for Car Talk+ at plus ...

Compression brakes, also called a Jacobs brake or jake brake, are those which compress ... against the truckers or the companies they work for, but would hope they have more respect for area ...

Mayor Chris Fabry said a resident reached out to the city asking them to look into “jake brakes” on that stretch of road because it is noisy. A brake retarder, or jake brake, is an engine ...

WEIRTON, W.Va. — Residents along Beverly Avenue off Freedom way in Weirton say they have been facing a loud issue -- trucks using Jake brakes. Joe Smith has lived in the same house for decades ...

At Monday night’s public meeting, Supervisors Jim Knight and Char Gray voted in favor of banning compression engine brake installations — more commonly known as jake brakes — in the ...

The ordinance defines engine brakes as “compression brakes, Jake brakes and/or Jacob brakes, as a means of braking used primarily on trucks for the conversion of the engine from an internal ...