I was going to comment hey you got a hair cut while the camera was stopped lol! I like the way you do repairs. Simple tools, not a bunch of antics and cursing. You keep the camera on what's happening using good ol techniques. Spent 5 years as a trailer tech, 5 as a reefer tech and now I've moved on to tractors all in the same shop. Great video sir.
Gordon, that seal is put in backwards of the other side so you can purge the grease out when you grease the bushings. Good video, I watch yours all the time.
what did you do with scam that you were knocking on it to push the bushings in ? were you trying to get the bushings out to install new ones or they were out of place so you were pushing them back? did you put new bushings ? thanks for video
Hey Gordon, How is it going? Pardon by not more comment your videos. I have a week in US and I'm working in Hartford CT and I not have time, but I never let whatching and follow your channel. Thank you for been cool with me and Let's go talking. God bless you all the time!
i changed brake chamber on front and just did slack adjuster scam and the bushings as well as the bearing all together on steer axle. drive axles looks okay so i left them.
The seal facing away from the brake shoes should be put in backwards so the extra grease will leak out there instead of out on the brake shoes or popping one of the seals out.
how do you take a job without knowing what you are doing,I only said that because in some of your videos you always said I don't know how this go,and put it on not knowing if you put it right or not, looks like you do know how to do some repairs and learning as you go
I was a trained, professional car mechanic in the '80s and even back then some jobs were first time, really all jobs were first time, the first time I did it. Since I never failed to successfully complete a job, only did it the hard way sometimes, I'm not afraid to try new things. I have all the tools and experience to finish anything I start or I won't try it.
I don't know, I bought it used and there's no label, Harbor Freight has good jacks for the price, if I needed to get another one I would go there. Thanks for watching.
Your working too hard. Leave the hub on,take the shoes off, take the scam tube off make a tool to fit into the gap between the cam and the brake spider (a piece 1/8 by 1 1/4 flat stock with a curve to fit) and drive the bushing and seal out will give you enough room to get cam out. Cut the cam at the bearing (about 2 inches) to use as a driver. The bearing in the tube drive the bushing and seal out from back side. For the spider, put the washer, the seal on the new scam facing in, then the bushing and drive it in flush. For the the tube put seal on the tool facing out then the bushing and drive in. Reassemble. . I've been working on trash truck's for 25 years and have replaced hundreds of scams (nothing gets abused like a trash truck). A line haul truck may get 500,000 or more, a trash truck gets 6 to 12 months out of a set of brakes. Work smarter not harder. Have a good day.
That is correct ,leave the hub on and take shoes off . there is no need to take that whole S -cam bracket off eather . All he need is a tool to knock old bush out and install new one ,but Gordon do not like a advice and doing it hard way . After you do more than 100 off them you figured out easy way .
I seems like your method might only be possible on the steer s-cams. I’m looking at my drive s-cam and the shaft is too long to be taken out without removing the hub.
If the seal is not leaking I never take the hub off. And with a 24,000 lb axle you either pull the hub or pull the cam tube. Though it is easier to put the brakes on the heavy steer axle without the hub.
Unless they have some kind of wierd axle I've never seen (though anything is possible with daimler/freightliner). You pull the snap ring off the cam, pull bolts holding the tube and slide it slack and tube off the cam. You can either leave the hoses on and just suspend the can or take the hoses off and drop it. Then from the back of the spider drive the seal and bushing out of the spider and then you've got enough play to get past the hub. Then put the tin plate on, seal facing in and the bushing and use the new cam to drive it all in and finish reasembling. I started working trash trucks in 1980 and I've done hundreds this way. I've worked for companies that you did it every time and companies that you only did when you HAD to replace the cam. (I've even worked for a company were you might only do one brake on an axle because the other one was "ok". 😱🤬
