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GA folks. Source for brake lets in N GA?
My source of stress with Nashville shops has been spoken of in another thread. I finish this little tour in N GA on Tuesday night and have a couple of days off. I have a shop in GA to work on the bus. Are there any good sources to buy brake liner kits for my bus in N GA? Or do I need to get back to Prevost Nashville to get them?
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And does anyone know if my XL uses a standard truck style brake or is it Prevost specific?
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pre disc? Any way my local brake supply has what I always need in stock or next day. Also Choo Choo garage on border with Ga has good rep. and great rates. Bob
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Yep, got drums all around. I can get the parts from Prevost and the price is pretty reasonable. But since I’m down here in GA, it would be nice to get the stuff down here.
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think I have discs on steer, drums on drive and disc on tag. Are these pads and shoes sourced at Provost only or available at local truck parts store?
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That’s what I’m hoping to find out. I don’t know if truck shops would have a listing for Prevost. I don’t have any part numbers. It would make things simpler if I could get them locally.
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In the early 90’s there was a switch to disc and drum combo. I think Dale prob has drum and the 94 has both. Go to prevost car and enter the year of your coach denoted by last letter in your serial # plus last 4 didgets it will tell you what you have. Example mine is W 6554= 1998 unit # 6554. At end of brake section it will tell you part #’s. Plus supplier part #. Bob
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When I redid my drum brakes on my first coach I could not get shoes or friction material anywhere. I tried all the truck parts houses and came up empty.
Prevost at the time had no shoes, but they did have new friction material so I relined my own brakes. It is not as simple as just relining shoes. The drums have to be turned to do the entire job correctly. All positions use different shoes. As I recall they are 14″ brakes with 3 different widths depending on if they are steer, drive, or tag.
Doing a job like that involves planning. All parts need to be on hand, someone to do the drum work needs to be on standby, if the shoes are available, that is good, but if not there needs to be a plan to deal with shoes that might not be reusable. Make sure you have new springs, be prepared to replace the S cam and slack adjusters so prpare to have a source for them in hand.
New friction material on shoes. The shoes were in great shape.
Shoes being installed. Still need to install the rollers
The tag axle shoes all done.
A job like this requires planning and a lot of attention to detail.
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