Taking the plunge. My journey as an O/O.

Gotta have the spring on chambers. Parking brake. Next time replace the airbags with metal base airbags. I should have mentioned that yesterday. Plastic ones leak. New ones should last a while. Hopefully they won’t leak till they’re rotted again

 

What’s up with the one new brake chamber. Right or wrong? Wrong? I’m going back to the shop that out it on. Why would they say that? Looks different? I would get a visual of it, make sure the rod lengths match at least. What’s different? Why the false alarm? $2000 doesn’t surprise Me. Probably the last Time you’ll need them. Should last at least 7 yrs. I think I’d eat a whole package of Oreos, especially since it’s a Monday. Lol.

 

Too late now......

But one way to test if it’s a air bag leak is to dump the air suspension when you park. And see if the air still leaks down.

I don’t know what kinda suspension you have but my primax bags are 12 years old with 650K miles and there still holding air......

 

Honestly, @Farmerbob1, when one of mine broke, I replaced them all too. I figured if one was bad, it wasn't going to be long before the other 3 would go bad as well.

 

I feel your pain. I ran a Columbia to 1.6 million miles. Everytime it hit the shop for something I thought a hose clamp could fix it cost me a thousand dollars. Eventually the stress got me. I went the new truck route. Run hard and throw away before warranty is up. Stress level went down, money about the same, but I find myself missing my old truck.
Just a tough business where everyone has opinions, but no one way works. I would like to see you having more control over the freight you pull. For me that's what it's all about and the only thing that makes this nonsense worth it. But again, that's just a opinion and we all have different ones.