When maintaining your truck’s air spring suspension system, ensuring the correct ride height is crucial. An incorrect height can result in reduced performance, durability, and even safety. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to accurately measure and set your truck’s air spring ride height.
Keep in mind that the optimal ride height is explicitly stated in the manufacturer’s specs. Deviating from these specifications can lead to hindered performance, reduced comfort, and even part failures. Heavy Truck Air Bags
Examine the suspension during the daily vehicle pre-trip inspection. Professionals recommend physically measuring the ride height annually or every 100,000 miles and checking within the first three months or 5,000 miles for new vehicles.
Regular maintenance is vital. Ensuring the correct ride height helps optimize the air spring’s performance, ensuring your truck runs efficiently, safely, and comfortably.
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The crucial role of slack adjusters in truck safety, understanding legal limits, and the innovative features offered by Motor Wheel
"Slack adjusters are secure; not cracked, bent, or broken and have no more than 1 inch of free play with the brakes released."
That’s the daily pre-trip inspection mantra of every driver who kicks the tires before taking off on their route. Or it should be. Slack adjusters are a safety-critical component of truck and trailer braking systems and deserve daily attention. They manage the connection between the brake pad and the brake drum so that when the driver hits the brakes, they respond as he or she expects them to even in high-stress situations like a sudden maneuver or panic stop. Like many components in the trucking industry, there’s no one-size-fits-all slack adjuster.
FUCHS Lubricants Co. recently released RENOLIT CSX AWE 0, a calcium sulfonate complex grease for truck trailer axle hubs. When compared to the industry-standard legacy grease in a third-party side-by-side study, RENOLIT CSX AWE 0 exhibits improved low friction performance, lower running temperature, and improved extreme-pressure performance. Using this product, OEMs can expect better protection
By the time you finish reading this article, you’ll realize that ensuring optimal tire performance can be as easy as ABC.
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