Frozen brakes

Have the driver knock the drum with a mallet ? Happens from time to time on my Prostar, just have to drag my arse under and knock a drum once and a while takes all of 2 min. Now if your freezing your valves then your drivers need to learn to drain da tanks, tho in these newer trucks the dryer should keep most of that out of the system. =)

 

If the brakes were already locked and the water froze over all of them nothing would of prevented this. Any truck would of had it freeze up in the right conditions. Welcome to winter it sucks, we all hate it, but at least its better then dealing with idiot 4 wheeler's attempting to pull campers the length of my trailer.

 

Sometimes helps to gently rock the truck in reverse a couple times to break the shoes free of the drum. Usually works.

 

That's what i do. I've never had to pound the truck brakes or drums.

COURSE, if I'm hooked to a loaded trailer. I'll lower the landing gear and drop the suspension so i'm not pulling the weight of the load.

 

I wonder if your Cascadia where parked at a different angle then your other trucks?

Normally if my brakes freeze I can just pump my brakes for a bit. It will usually break free.

 

I just cuss, get the hammer out, and go to work. Then when I get back in the truck I look at all the trucks leaving that have one or more wheels frozen just dragging their wagon not a clue.

 

If i can drag to asphalt. i'll take that over freezeing my arse off, laying in the snow, trying to free em up.
Now, if drivers are dragging down 25 miles of asphalt, still locked up. Then i'd be doing something, ( probably not pretty either ).

If i'm stuck, then it sucks.