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Wow. Go read my posts. I never said engine breaking would stop you in a hill, or would even stop you quickly. I said here in houston, where it is FLAT it works, no it won't stop you on a dime, no it wouldn't stop you with a load, man your just looking for reason to bash on me because i stepped...

thanks guys, i have a plan of attack for tomorrow. I'll update tomorrow what I find.

Thank you much sir. Do you happen to have a parts list for that? Sizes, etc. So pump it up, bleed the airpack, then the brakes all around? Correct? Starting with the WC farthest from the MC

Yes sir. I will do it in that order tomorrow. But with full 110ish PSI buzzer off, just goes to the floor.

thus why it's called a "parking" brake. lol not a "oh ****" brake. As for "most respected" hey, hats off, but no one needs to act like "daddy" do we? Really? I mean really, did each one of you do a full brake inspection of the complete brake system before driving it? If you did great, how i...

I've been reading the TM and manual. On bleeding the brakes does not sound fun. The book was talking about using a device to bleed the brakes, this being my first where would I buy these tools, or is there a shade tree way of doing it? I have a ok understanding of the brake system now looking...

If your blowing lines, get some steel braided lines. Just get some custom ones made. Go read the posts, to sound like we are in the school yard. You started it. I have no doubt you know these trucks. Granted I don't know them like the back of my hand yet, give me a few months. I'm a very quick...

I kind of figured I'd run into a few like you guys on a site like this. compression braking has nothing to do with vacuum. LOL it's using the compression of the engine, you know when you quit adding fuel it's still making compression on all 6. Hills sure your out of luck, 15,000 - 20,000 LBS...

Gotta say thanks again. I really was not thinking anyone would reply so quickly... Maybe I'll stick around a little more.

Isn't it funny. Granted as scared as you might be of it, you can stop with out normal brakes, in fact practice it! I'm surprised from the sounds of it no one chimed in telling me to use engine breaking with engine killing to stop "should" brakes go out. That's a standard rule should an event...

Just a small correction in case someone else search for this. Correction : operators manual TM 9-2320-361-10 unit maintenance manual TM 9-2320-361-20. not "TM 0-"

Thanks a ton! Yes, I completely agree. When i bought it, the owner told me it was air brakes. I started looking around after no brakes and said "What the hell" lol Yea so that's where i'm at now. I'm very mechanical inclined and have about 80 percent truck figured out. Stupid me just thought...

It shows in the manual that it has two caps, but mine does NOT have that. It looks solid with one line coming out of the top of it and no where does it look like you can take a cap off and add fluid. It looks like i could undo the line at top and add some there, but it does not look like that's...

Yes Sir I found that, but i don't see what to do, take off or unplug to add or check fluid. I'm looking in the TMs lol there is a lot of them. Thanks

1971 Am M109A3 Brakes Please Help! Hello, I'm new here, I've been enjoying my M109A3 for a while. It's been sitting a while (few months) with normal startups etc, but the other day I noticed my brakes had no feeling, moved it a bit and no brakes at all. I've never worked on or even...