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Stephen Fessenden (Sffess) (65.130.8.190)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 2:37 am: | |
I will soon be installing new drive axle air bags. I ordered them unmounted since it is about $100 per bag cheaper. Has anyone had actual experience with mounting bags on the hardware. (I know it takes a small cage made of two steel plates and long bolts or threaded rods on the sides to inflate the bag and push it over the cone. but has anybody actually done it.) If you have please give me some advice. If no one responds, I'll let you know how it went in about a month. Most bags come mounted, but Prevost has some unmounted ones also, and, as I said, they are a lot cheaper.
SF |
Geoff (Geoff) (64.1.0.216)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 10:53 am: | |
I mounted some using a 20-ton press (just a cheap one like you get at Harbor Freight). It was pretty easy.
--Geoff
'82 RTS CA |
Geoff (Geoff) (64.1.0.216)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 12:20 pm: | |
Correction: Make that a 12-ton press...
--Geoff |
Stephen Fessenden (Sffess) (65.130.11.97)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 10:45 pm: | |
Geoff, could you tell me more, please? Did you use the press to keep the parts together and air pressute to seat the bags.
The bags just came and they look smaller than the bags on the bus, but maybe they expand with use. I will measure and verify that the bags are the same number before I begin. |
Geoff (Geoff) (64.1.0.94)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 8:53 am: | |
It's been about four years since I did it-- all I remember is using air to take the bags apart and a slight bit of air to hold their shape as I pressed them onto the cone. Then I released the air and the bags remained in their deflated shape.
--Geoff |