Having spent many weeks fettling my Ward La France brakes I am disappointed and shocked that the brake pedal travels to the floor!
Strangely the brakes work fine. The air moves, works the brakes and stop the truck in the first half inch of pedal travel, but there is nothing to stop the pedal being pressed further down.
I have heard that these early air brakes lacked any feel but the huge pedal travel doesn't instill any confidence.
I am currently running without the pedal return spring, as I don't have one, (using a bungy cord at moment to stop pedal falling to floor and applying brakes itself) but this can't be all that is relied on for pedal feel surely?
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Having spent many weeks fettling my Ward La France brakes I am disappointed and shocked that the brake pedal travels to the floor!
Strangely the brakes work fine. The air moves, works the brakes and stop the truck in the first half inch of pedal travel, but there is nothing to stop the pedal being pressed further down.
I have heard that these early air brakes lacked any feel but the huge pedal travel doesn't instill any confidence.
I am currently running without the pedal return spring, as I don't have one, (using a bungy cord at moment to stop pedal falling to floor and applying brakes itself) but this can't be all that is relied on for pedal feel surely?
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