Re: Brake Fade? What Brake Fade?

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2015/8/31 8:11:12

I had a pretty good dose of brake fade in the 56 Caribbean once, but it was in a very extreme situation, a long (certainly much more than a 1/2 mile), winding and very steep downgrade where you had to be on the brakes almost constantly and by the time I realized it I was going to fast to engage low range on the TU. After cool-down the brakes again seemed normal but when I got home and pulled the drums; the linings were crazed and thus replaced - the drums showed some warping and were trued. I've never experienced it again, now when I see those signs on a downgrade for trucks to use a lower gear, so do I.