[Gerald]

Boy, things must be tough out in hollywood. I never would have guessed that Steve Carell would be doing safety/info videos for Meritor. And nice safety glasses.

[DON]

Good video.

I locked up my right tag axle brake by overgreasing last fall. Got too enthusiastic with new power grease gun. Will pay more attention this year.

Gerald

[Mike]

Over greasing of many points on our coaches creates serious problems and as owners we have to be certain whoever is greasing our coach that enough is enough.

Two common examples are as Gerald mentions, the overgreasing of the slack adjuster pivot on Meritor disc brakes. because the accumulated grease can prevent the release or retraction of the brake pads from the disc. That in turn can cause an overheated brake, warped discs or worse, a fire.

A second common problem with overgreasing is damage to the protective dust boots or dust covers on some suspension parts such as tie rod ends. When these components are greased all that is needed is enough grease to get between the two moving surfaces. Anything more is wasted, yet some grease monkeys keep pumping grease until a stream of it oozes from the rubber boot. If that happens often enough eventually the dust cover or rubber boot begins to tear with the eventual loss of protection against dirt contamination in a moving joint.

There are numerous other points on our coaches that can have problems due to over enthusiastic greasing so make sure whoever has the task of greasing the coach understands this.

[Archived]

would it be possible to put that link under “video of interest” i sure could of used this info a few weeks ago when my dads CC XL was in need of some serious brake work work out n the middle of no where ! Thanks

[Archived]

I put in under repair nuggets.