Engine stall downhill while using 4eat to brake..

[Svengouli7]

Hey all. Recently rebuilt my 4eat AWD in our 92 legacy. I've put about 500 road miles on it since- so we decided to take it out to the mountains to play for the day.

 

Everything was dandy all day- but on one steep descent down a FS road I had it in 1st to slow it down and had the engine stall out.

 

I'm thinking this could have been a fault with the torque converter since this is its primary function- but putting it out ther to see if there's any other valuable input for me on this. We had no other problems the rest of the day but I chose to use 2nd and more brakes for our other declines

 

Thanks guys

[Rooster2]

Using first gear, as a gear down to slow down on declining steep grade sounds a bit too much to ask the tranny and engine to do. Second gear with some braking  is what I would do.

[Svengouli7]

Thanks Rooster