Guys I'm stuck at WW Williams in Toledo needing a drive axle slack adjuster. MCI has them on backorder and I really need one yesterday. 1992 MCI 102C3
Looking for cross reference numbers Haldex or other please.
Try calling Mando at Complete Coachworks in Riverside, CA. He may have a shelf full of these as they strip MCI buses all the time. 951.836.4440.
Tell him I said to call and he will probably ship it out today and you will have it tomorrow.
Gary
Call Luke.
On the phone with Luke. Here's the adjuster that needs replacing:
Luke hooked me up. Won't arrive until Thursday though so wife is driving 5 hours round trip to come and get me and our fridge and freezer contents... I hate owning an old bus.
Old bus?!
Scott your bus is brand new!! ;D ;D ;D
And mine ('68) is still new compared to others...
How did it break? Dumb me can't tell by the pic... :-[
It won't hold adjustment. Keeps backing off and not applying enough pressure to pads.
Follow the manufacturer installation procedures TO THE LETTER.
Auto slacks are routinely damaged by idiots that refuse to follow directions, and slap a wrench on them, when all that does is break the internals.
Every one, every model, every manufacturer, older, newer, are ALL DIFFERENT.
Good for you in finding it. An auto slack that won't hold adjustment points to a serious, fix it now, situation. Whether the auto slack or the failure of underlying machinery, there can be no trust that any braking will occur at that wheel location.
On principle, i'd think hard about doing the other side, they've both led the same life, at the same hands...
Happy coaching!
Buswarrior
Is that an automatic slack adjuster - I can't tell from the photo. When I first got my bus and was fanatical about checking things I discovered on a trip that the locking sleeve on the manual slack adjuster bolt was not working - had been broken when the shop replaced the brakes. On the trip, I drilled it for safety wire, which as a racing mechanic I had in the tool box. The safety wire locked the bolt and it didn't move for the rest of the trip. Luke sent me two new Bendix units as soon as I got home.
So I am indeed replacing both sides and it is an automatic adjuster but I'm replacing them with manual adjusters because well just because
Quote from: Scott & Heather on May 14, 2019, 02:57:14 PM
So I am indeed replacing both sides and it is an automatic adjuster but I'm replacing them with manual adjusters because well just because
LOL yea because you can buy 3 manual for the price of one automatic slack adjusters you are not fooling anyone 8) anything after 1993 DOT requires the automatic when in commercial use,the Bendix automatic slack adjusters have a 200,000 mile warranty for the first 150,000 mile if one fails they even pay labor to replace it
I prefer manual adjusters. Simpler. Easy to adjust. You can set them with less slack than automatics. In bus nut use, you don't have to adjust them very often. You should still check them regularly though. Auto slacks were invented for hired driver's.
JC
Lol. Yup. Cliff is right. They want too much gold for those autos.