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David Rudisill:

--- Quote from: Richard And Babs Ames ---David, Please let us know if can tell the "higher preformance" PXBR is better than the old one.
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I just returned from having it installed. The truck repair shop is almost 2,000' further up the mountain than where we are parked, so I got to use it quite a bit.

We weren't hauling the toad, but I didn't notice any difference in performance with the new Pacbrake. A definitive test will have to wait until we head further south in a week or two.

David Rudisill:
We had an opportunity to test the new PRXB yesterday. We descended from 2,200' to almost sea level, then drove through quite few hills to get to our current location, at 2,500'. We had one two mile 6% down grade along the way.

The PRXB definitely performs better than the original Pacbrake. On the 6% grade, it held us at 55 MPH in fourth gear with only occasional light use of the service brakes. With the old Pacbrake, I needed to keep it in third gear, below 52 MPH, using the service brakes more aggressively because we had so little braking assist from it in fourth gear.

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