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"Massive hydraulic brake fluid leak"

Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by sh333, Sep 7, 2017.

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  1. Sep 8, 2017 #11
    sh333

    sh333 Bobtail Member

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    Update:
    Had a mobile truck service go out and look at it. Apparently, there were no brake pads installed, and the hardware and shoe were both missing. Caliper was seized. Mechanic said there's no way it happened recently, must have been that way for several weeks.
    We had the trailer at a local shop a few weeks ago for brake work. New pads and caliper. Shop swears up and down they would never do such a thing, but they can't recall exactly which side of which axle they worked on.
     
    sh333, Sep 8, 2017
    sh333, Sep 8, 2017
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  3. Sep 8, 2017 #12
    sh333

    sh333 Bobtail Member

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    Yeah, he's gone now.
     
    sh333, Sep 8, 2017
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  4. Sep 8, 2017 #13
    Antinomian

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    Either the shop honestly missed a pair of vise grips hanging from a brake line, or they saw it and ignored it. Either way yes, there's an issue with the shop.
     
    Antinomian, Sep 8, 2017
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  5. Sep 8, 2017 #14
    201

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    WOW!!
     
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  7. Sep 8, 2017 #15
    Hulld

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    This is the same tri axel hydraulic brake set up as on my semi car trailer.
    The question I have is:
    did the driver have a leak and put the vise grips on because of the leak?
    Or was it that way when it when in to the shop and the shop did nothing with it?

    We're the vise grips rusty like they had been on there a long time or shinny like someone just put them on?
     
    Hulld, Sep 8, 2017
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