Tag: slack adjusters

Equipment

How to keep automatic slack adjusters in their groove

Are you ready for Brake Safety Week? With the nationwide inspection event — August 23-29 — kicking off in a week, a series of brake-maintenance-related stories to assist in your preps for the event. Here, a refresh on automatic slack adjuster maintenance.

August 17, 2020

Equipment

Keeping brake adjusters in their groove

Automatic brake adjusters don’t need a lot of attention, but they certainly don’t fall in the set-it-and-forget-it category. Periodic inspection and lubrication are critical to optimal performance.

August 30, 2019

Channel 19

CSA-Proofing, part two: Closed greasing system

Owner-operator Gordon Alkire’s engineered a solution to the problem of needing to get under the truck to grease front and rear suspension components with a system he says he’s spent a mere $75 on.

March 9, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Let us now rant over the unfairness of safety technology

You wouldn’t normally equate a person’s economic status with the safety of their vehicle, but a recent study links them. The study, appearing in the April issue of Traffic Injury Prevention, is talking about four-wheelers. However, the same principle could apply to heavy trucks’ history with anti-lock brakes and slack adjusters, or to current trends […]

April 23, 2010