Air Brake Calipers....YIKES !!! (UPDATE)
Front brake caliper needed to be replaced....Bendix Part Number K022919. Called Monaco to confirm. Using the axle serial number and proper part numbers, this is the correct part number. Checked with B...
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Wow,
So much debate here. It's incredibly too bad that Dennis has had this misfortune of the failure of his brake calipers AFTER they were flooded. It is, for the life of me, still amazing that they will charge that kind of money for something like that. Now, I'm pretty sure that none of us could tell fortunes here but, would those calipers of his last another 10 years if they were not flooded? I'm not a betting man (primarily because I always loose, even at the "one arm bandits" in Vegas) but, I'd bet that they would have lasted an additional ten years, if not quite a bit longer.
But, that's just pure speculation. Again, I suspect that he's done research every way from Sunday, to come out with a less expensive way of a remedy for his situation. I know I would. I'd take those things apart and dissect them 'till the sun went down, and came back up again, trying to find a way to keep them in service. And, I have done that, and it worked. But, there's just some times when, you just have to bite the bullet and, spend the money, all be it, an extraordinary amount here, for his parts.
Dennis, too bad Partner, again also, I feel for your pain. I've been there, done that, quite a few times on our coach. I showed my son who, has done many repairs on ALL types of RVs, Class Cs, Class As, Gas, Diesels, Pushers, Pullers, and more and, he's built Trophy Trucks too for off road high performance racing. His comment back to me was, "It sounds like he's building brakes for a Trophy truck, those run upwards of $10,000."
Anyway, hope you can at least get something from your insurance company Dennis. That's what we all pay them for. Good luck.
Scott
So much debate here. It's incredibly too bad that Dennis has had this misfortune of the failure of his brake calipers AFTER they were flooded. It is, for the life of me, still amazing that they will charge that kind of money for something like that. Now, I'm pretty sure that none of us could tell fortunes here but, would those calipers of his last another 10 years if they were not flooded? I'm not a betting man (primarily because I always loose, even at the "one arm bandits" in Vegas) but, I'd bet that they would have lasted an additional ten years, if not quite a bit longer.
But, that's just pure speculation. Again, I suspect that he's done research every way from Sunday, to come out with a less expensive way of a remedy for his situation. I know I would. I'd take those things apart and dissect them 'till the sun went down, and came back up again, trying to find a way to keep them in service. And, I have done that, and it worked. But, there's just some times when, you just have to bite the bullet and, spend the money, all be it, an extraordinary amount here, for his parts.
Dennis, too bad Partner, again also, I feel for your pain. I've been there, done that, quite a few times on our coach. I showed my son who, has done many repairs on ALL types of RVs, Class Cs, Class As, Gas, Diesels, Pushers, Pullers, and more and, he's built Trophy Trucks too for off road high performance racing. His comment back to me was, "It sounds like he's building brakes for a Trophy truck, those run upwards of $10,000."
Anyway, hope you can at least get something from your insurance company Dennis. That's what we all pay them for. Good luck.
Scott
