The Brakes - Left Middle

Richard Lehr  19 April 2014 15:03:00

The problem with the brakes - Act One

Half way on my way home from the freight forwarder's yard I lost brake pressure. Wow, what a nice situation having no brakes on a 3.5 ton truck. As I wrote before the Goat's brake drums are filled with overpressure and the air is coming from ... the engine. The engineers have forgotten to put an oil separator in the vent line coming from the engine and going to the wheels. Known issue ...

First I opened the drum of the second axle on the left side:

It looked like an oil pan after draining.the oil. Excellent rust-proofing.





Looked like new ...


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