You be fine 2 feet brakeing it . Just low/low and load and GO !
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Will hydroboost brakes work?
- Thread starter wetoolowdingbangow
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wetoolowdingbangow
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My 4.10 gears . 203/205 both in low . Warm engine at 650rpm tops out at 1.6 mph 1st gear th400 at idle crawl . I can do my own Chinese fire drills by my self 
The brakes still work you just don't have power assist, meaning you have to apply a lot more force to them. As long as rest of the braking system is in decent shape you should have no issues stopping if you are just idling a few hundred feet onto a trailer....not like you are driving down the freeway at 70 mph!
Yes, that makes it plenty slow. But like I said before, you will not be able to stop the truck as long as it's in gear. So when you're close, take it out of gear, put both feet on the brake pedal and stand up on it.
That.
I can attest to it.
Once you are a couple of feet away put it in neutral and hit the brakes
Actually, given the gear ratio, if you are moving fast enough to make it onto the trailer, just push in the clutch, turn off the engine, and when the engine stops, use the clutch like a reverse action brake.
Just feather it and the stopped engine will stop the truck.
I used to do that with my old Jeep when I ripped loose a brake line in the woods. And I didn't even have it in low range, just regular low gear.
As long as I did not engage the clutch hard enough to spin the engine, I could use it to stop. With your gears, you could almost skid the tires without spinning the engine.
Just feather it and the stopped engine will stop the truck.
I used to do that with my old Jeep when I ripped loose a brake line in the woods. And I didn't even have it in low range, just regular low gear.
As long as I did not engage the clutch hard enough to spin the engine, I could use it to stop. With your gears, you could almost skid the tires without spinning the engine.
I'll just say that people are making a way bigger deal out of this than what it is. If the rest of the brake system is in decent shape there should be no issue stopping the vehicle at slow speed, you just obviously have to apply more force to the pedal. I learned to drive as a little kid in an old Toyota Land Cruiser with manual drum brakes....people use to modern power brakes where you just barely feather the pedal would freak out if they tried to drive it because you have to actually put some force in the brake pedal!
I agree, but having compound gearing will make it harder so he needs to disengage
I agree........but also don't think he needs compound low to idle down the driveway and load it on the trailer.
