Sterling air brake question

NTOLERANCE · Feb 5, 2011

TRying to help someone out on a job site with a 2001 Sterling acterra. Seems the air brakes wont release. WE arent sure if they are frozen at the shoes or in the actuators.

I dont know alot about this truck. It there a water drain on the system? Any place to add air brake line anti freeze? If I could see the truck, I could figure it out, but I need to relay the information to someone a good distance away.

Any help?

ghunt · Feb 7, 2011

Not sure if it helps, but it probably is water in the system and there should be some sort of a drain somewhere...does it have an air dryer, is it venting excess pressure? Drain should be on the dryer.

Last year we had water freeze up in our air dryer...it hadn't been drained in forever, we didn't even know it had a drain, but it wouldn't build any pressure and it turned out that was the problem.

NTOLERANCE · Feb 8, 2011

Both tanks have drains, we got the truck back in the shop now.

Neither tank has any water after it sat in the hop for a couple of days. Seems fine now.

Gary79F250 · Feb 9, 2011

Check the Quick Releases, I've seen the rubber dust shield freeze to the housing. Also I have seen ice build up between the QR and frame rail, think of the mid 80's chevy 7500's 8500's. Hope this helps

Sterling air brake question

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