One simple but overlooked way to improve customer satisfaction is maintaining a vehicle's rear brakes, and the key to improving rear brake maintenance is usually through customer education. Let's ...

The experts at Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC recognize that proper brake stroke adjustment and maintenance are critical to commercial vehicle and roadway safety. As part of its newly released ...

The following was published in CCJ's Air Brake Book, 11th edition, sponsored by Silverback HD. CCJ's Air Brake Book is a complementary industry resource, courtesy of our partnership with Silverback HD ...

Bryon Stoll, who co-owns Suprise Trucking with his wife, Holly, got a bit of a rude awakening recently when two owner-operators leased to the fleet received two separate brake violations written at ...

With the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's Brake Safety Week 2024 under way through this coming Saturday, listen back to the 2021 Overdrive Radio podcast talk with Pennsylvania-based former ...

Everybody worries about getting a ticket for having badly adjusted brakes, but a ticket would be preferable to the other possible outcome. While equipment defects are a cause in only a small ...

After recently completing the installation of a new rear suspension under our 1936 Phaeton it was time to complete that installation with a working emergency brake. Our first order of business was to ...

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If the e-brake on your Scion tC is not holding like it was new, it means that either its cable or the brake pads in the rear wheels’ drums got worn. Adjusting it back is a fairly easy job and you need ...

Despite what you may think, the 2-inch stroke limit on a standard Type-30 brake chamber isn’t arbitrary. With a Type-30 chamber, 0.66 inches of pushrod travel is used to move the brake lining from its ...

While converting from drums to disc brakes on the front of many older cars is a sensible upgrade, irrespective of performance gains, we opted to install discs on the rear of our project wagon too. Not ...