Cat c15 help

I have never heard of that before, how does that work?

 

Can't you just hook glad hands from one tractor to another tractor that's idling then push in the red trailer brakes button on the tractor not running that needs charged up with air and let it charge up?

 

Yes you can, done it a time or two...

 

I know how a tow truck does it, they pull out the drain valve on an air tank and put a fitting in there and run a line from the tow truck to yours. Not everyone keeps fittings like that around incase they need to air up another truck.

 

Cool, I had no idea that it would work like that. Figured that there would be a valve to prevent air from going in the opposite direction of what it normally does.

 

But with the system charged you could have pull started your rig with an F150. You only have to pull one about 5 feet and the motor will fire.

 

If pull starting in a parking lot you can always back off the parking brakes and pull it. You will still have steer axle brakes and possibly even brakes on one drive axle to stop with, more than enough for what needs to be done.