Gordon, I want to say thank you for all of your videos and your help, this has really been fantastic. I've seen you U-Joint videos, clutch and tranny videos and many more, all done very well. Really appreciate you taking the extra time to do job explaining things, and all of your time and effort into video editing. As long as yo u keep making them, I will watch them!
I've watched several of your videos, outstanding work. Not alot of videos of big truck repair. The more I can learn from people like yourself, the less likely I am to get gouged at a shop. Keep these videos coming. Thanks from your followers in WI
That's true. I replaced a couple of lights on this truck the same day, they came with new screws and I dropped one of the old ones and the floor ate it, so I grabbed one of the new ones and it was too short, I didn't have one like it in my junk so I tied a piece of wire through the hole and told him I'll try to find a new screw for that for the next time he comes back.
the way to line the pin up is to get a tape mesure in the front of the chamber and take the pin and put it on top of the old one and mesure frome the chamber to the back of the pin and I done one yesterday
I hate to throw anything away, someday I might do a video on the spare parts I have collected over the years and tell examples of the time and money I saved by having these things here. There's another problem with that though, I'm still looking for the floor in my garage, I seem to have misplaced it somewhere.
I go to the other extreme and I've paid for my mistake more than I care to remember. I used to save more stuff and often I'd find the part I needed right after I bought a new one. I wish I could figure out the right balance.
Gordon, I have a '77 Gillig school bus. Everything at all four brakes looks excellent except the rollers are sitting up on top of the S cams instead of down in the roller pockets with the system at zero pressure. I'm thinking at zero pressure the roller should be up out of the bottoms of the S cam pockets (brakes on) but not clear up on top. The pockets in the S cams are covered in grunge like nothing has been down in there for a long time. I'm so ignorant about this system yet but would you think someone has installed the S cams improperly? Given new shoes and what looks like freshly turned drums someone has been in this system.
