Dumb question maybe

Get bendix ACom hooked up. Possible ABS faults due to pressure transducers/ correlation. Be on the look out for any major air leaks, tractor trailer or other wise.

 

Piece of black duct tape. I drove a KW with "traction control", was a PITA. My "traction control" was my right foot. Whatever happened to that?

 

Àh, the good ol days! Semi retired, do you remember when there was a switch to disable the front brakes? Now here's one for the advanced aged drivers...did you ever drive a truck that had a small steel flag drop out of the headliner, when the air pressure dropped?

 

I remember all that. Most of the trucks I started in on had no front brakes at all. The low air flag worked pretty well unless the holding pin got too worn and then it would flop part way down. A paperclip held it in place.
My favorite was a 10 wheeler with no turn signals. On the upper rear outside of the cab there was a wig-wag arm that was attached by cable to a lever in the truck. It was how you signalled for a turn.

 

I'm hardly 3 decades old and know about all that stuff. My truck doesn't even have front brakes and it has 3 buttons for the park brakes!

 

Trucks have come a long way over the decades. It's the regulations and emissions that have made them more difficult and expensive. Today's drivers cannot get away with the crap that we used to.

 

I do, I drove an old IH that had a lever marked "Slippery/Dry road", 1st truck I drove, a '63 IH R190 dump truck had a "Wig-Wag". Going further back, ( before my time) there was a regulator for hooking up to 6volt trailers with a 12v tractor. Let's see, kerosene flare pots, brake alcohol injectors, vacuum trailer brakes, oh yeah, we've come a long ways,,,kind of.

 

Mine just started doing it. What was the fix?