Check your caging bolts

[73m819]

Just a note to all you air brake equipped truck owners,
CHECK your spring brake caging bolts, pull then and look for rust, corrosion, mud, sand box sand packing, bad threads, ect. ANY of this can/will make the bolts inoperative, on the side of the road, needing to gage a brake is NOT the time to find your caging bolts are screwed.

The reason I am posting this is today I needed to cage two pots so they could be removed, only to find that BOTH caging bolts were FUBRed, not a big deal as I carry some in the 819, BUT if on the side of the road, that would be another story.

 

[m16ty]

Aluminum to steel isn't a good combination. Then add all the dirt and grime that gets in there. I've seen some that were really tough to get out and when you did you weren't left with much.

 

[Bandit02]

Always carry them in the cab or whatever. Eventually the corrosion (if the bolt is left in the pot) with crack and spread apart and will like mentioned above and corrode away.