Need Brakes...can't find them!

Stim wrote:
X-2 On NAPA, they can look up brake parts with just the casting number and they can have it brought in from afar! (price is usually reasonable too)
IF you find the right parts person! (have had some with no clue)

There is a problem using this method when the same casting is used for different applications. The Napa counter person will say that they can do it and it does work part of the time. The problem is you don't know which is which! The casting number for FMC master brake cylinders is the same number for severl different MC and they are valved differently and have different strokes.

This methode of sourcing the MC caused a lot of problems for a number of FMC owners. In our case, it has now been sorted out and we know which PART NUMBER is correct for which coach based on serial number.

X-2 On NAPA, they can look up brake parts with just the casting number and they can have it brought in from afar! (price is usually reasonable too)
IF you find the right parts person! (have had some with no clue)

Call C. H Topping in Long Beach, Ca. they can re-sleeve the master in SS and rebuild it and send it back to you.

All Deere Chassis information is available from Freightliner.

Master cylinder should be available from Napa. Need to pull MC and obtain casting number.

C-Leigh Racing wrote:
You didnt mention what year coach & I cant in my mind right now think which a Serengeti is, gas or diesel, but the late 80s John Deere gas chassis used a disc pad same as on a lot of International school busses & NAPA stocks those. Run you around 80 buck per axle for the two pair & front & rear are the same pads.
Neil

Note that the OP said he needed the Master Cylinder or kit to rebuilt it and not the wheel parts.

You didnt mention what year coach & I cant in my mind right now think which a Serengeti is, gas or diesel, but the late 80s John Deere gas chassis used a disc pad same as on a lot of International school busses & NAPA stocks those. Run you around 80 buck per axle for the two pair & front & rear are the same pads.
Neil

If ypu can't find a rebuilt one, go to an auto parts store and have them send yours out to be rebuilt.

Have you spoken to Freightliner?? They took over Oshkosh about 15 years ago.

-Tom

Is it one of the ones on the Ford chassis or Oshkosh chassis? If Ford then I would try a local truck parts dealer. If Oshkosh then ????

I am led to believe that some Pace Arrow motorhomes are on a John Deere chassis notably 1988

Sorry I cannot help further