Winter Truck Air System Maintenance: How to Stop Moisture Freezing Your Brakes Cold weather exposes every weakness in a truck’s air brake system. From tired air dryer cartridges to moisture sitting in trailer reservoirs, winter is when small problems can quickly become frozen air lines, dragging brakes and costly roadside delays. Winter has a habit…
Bendix Modernises the Digital Parts Counter There was a time when finding brake parts meant walking into the local parts shop, leaning on the counter and explaining your problem to a bloke who somehow knew every pad shape ever fitted to a Falcon ute since 1987. Today, that same job often involves three browser tabs,…
Click the play button to listen to “Breaking the Mold: Bendix’s Manufacturing Revolution”. Bendix: 70 Years on the Brakes – Still Driving Australian Innovation Seventy years is a long time in the world of manufacturing. Entire industries rise and fall in that span. But at the heart of regional Victoria, one iconic name in Australian…
A Driver’s Guide to Bendix Wingman Fusion DIU operation, that can be optioned on all Kenworth Legacy models, new Kenworth T610, T610ASAR, T410, T410SAR and T350 models. The Bendix Wingman DIU (driver information unit) is the part of the Fusion system that provides information and allows the driver to select from the pre-set parameters to…
Kenworth T410SAR – First viewing and in depth features review. Kenworth T410SAR provides payload and productivity advantages When it comes to “Australian Made” nothing can lay claim to this title like Kenworth’s SAR model, it is after all designed and built right here in Australia. It was in fact born in Victoria back in the…
How truck air dryers work and how to maintain them Draining the air tanks daily was a lesson instilled into me at an early age in a very fervent manner, it became a routine task at the end of each day. For today’s drivers this is becoming a task rarely performed as more and more…