Mitchell 1, a Snap-on Company, has added color air brake diagrams to Tractor-Trailer.net, its comprehensive web-based truck repair manual system. The pneumatic diagrams will include the same widely ...

Plumbing up a trailer with air-brakes might be almost as simple as tying your laces, but it’s a different story with tractor pneumatics. While the system itself is beautifully straightforward in ...

The following was published in CCJ's Air Brake Book, 11th edition, sponsored by SilverbackHD. CCJ's Air Brake Book is a complementary industry resource, courtesy of our partnership with SilverbackHD, ...

The emergency and supply lines that stretch between a tractor and trailer offer a colorful reminder that compressed air is the lifeblood of your brake system. The hoses are a respective red and blue, ...

Daily vehicle inspection requirements include a check of the operational parts of an air brake system, like the governor, the air compressor and the low-air-pressure warning devices. This portion of ...

When the brake pedal is pressed, the exhaust passage will be closed and the air intake passage opens and compressed air goes back to the chamber. During the return stroke, the exhaust passage opens ...

An air brake or, a compressed air brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to apply the pressure to the brake pad needed to stop the ...