WILDEBILL308 wrote:
This is true Glazing is more associated with over heating. I haven't heard of anyone wearing out their brakes on a diesel pusher.
Bill
Wearing out a set of brakes on a diesel pusher is rare if you're the original owner and/or a gas coach. It's more like that the 3rd or 4th owner might.
Your brakes get plenty of exercise in stop and go traffic stopping 30k pounds, just pulling into a campground will adjust your slack adjusters. I drove hazmat trucks, which are similar in size to Motorhomes. We wore out the trucks before the brakes and we drove with the jakes brakes on 24/7. Never an issue. The last thing you want in a Hazmat truck is to heat up your brakes and have them go away.
Heat is the enemy, not jake brakes and why chassis makers have big cooling scoops directing cooling air directly on the brakes, Ford had nice big ones on the F-53 chassis.
Just pulling into a campground will adjust a slack adjuster.
Just a note on squealing, this can be caused by damaged rotors caused by excessive heating. In that case you'd need to have them resurfaced. Drilled and slotted rotors is what they came up with to prevent excessive heating. Another cause is the wearing of brake pads and pad gunk building up around the pads.
The pads will wear and have 90 degree edges. To fix it you just need to grind the edge of the pads to a more rounded edge. Occasional slow braking will not fix or prevent this. It's more the design of the pads and it's composition. Semi metallic pads are more prone to do this and newer pad composition really prevents now vs. the past.
