Air Disk Brakes

MM, i have experienced fade in my setup, which for those who dont know is an Iveco.

In reality, i dont believe that a setup can be mixed, it shold be either all drum or all disc. cause they operate in efficency at different ranges, loading one up then the other..

Stop start traffic heats mine up badly. never got that with drums.

 

See it all the time on the long grades on I70 in Colorado. Supertrucker morons think they can make it down Vail, Eisenhower, Mt Vernon, Wolf Creek (to name a few) at 70mph with 40,000 lbs on. About 2/3 down, the brakes are fading to nothing... you can smell the smokin' linings about 5 miles away on a windy day.

And you can generally read about the dead truckers the next day...

 

I drove for a company that the jake did not work unless you had the brake on. My brakes always got hot.

 

Jfaulk... that vid was a rookie driver.... his instructor was asleep,,,, both were killed. There's a link to the news story on another thread somewhere in "ask an OO"

 

Agent the systems here are full disk. not front disk rear drum like yours. that really doesn't make much sense if you ask me

 

Even the tractors?

I have hauled trailers with disc on the star, the disc setup appears to need more air pressure or pedal aplication if you like, to achieve comparable results.

But if the tractor and trailer were all disc, i guess it could work ok. Nothing like overheating the brakes down a grade and not only having a runaway rig, but a flaming runaway rig

 

Sorry but disc brakes don't fade like drums.........................Disc brakes are so much better then drums, the have been perfected in Europe a long time ago. The only reason we still use drum brakes is weight, disc systems are heaver. Mark

 

The difference between disc and drums are simple / in disc brakes when the rotor heats and expands it moves closer to the brake pads unlike drums that heat up and expand move away from the pads (eg break fade) and that is why disc will always be better then drums except in off road conditions where dirt will eat up disc break pads faster then pads in a drum.

 

OK, no worries, come explain that to my truck, which just so happens to be european.

i reguarly heat fade the disc.

When the pads get hot and gas up, they fade. anyone telling you otherwise is sadly un-educated in the ways of braking systems..