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Stop right now!
While you still can.....
Pull the wheels off and check the wheel cylinders. If they are leaking it
is likely that they've become pitted. They will cause the rubber seals of
the piston to get eaten away until they fail all of a sudden. You can't
imagine the terror of finding your self with no brakes as you are
approaching an intersection with a red light. It happened to me in my M215.
My wife and 3 kids were in the cab. We were just going for a short trip. I
leaned on the horn and flew through the intersection (trying to force a
downshift out to the 215's auto trans). Eventually I went off the road into
a parking lot that had a gravel run-off. Nobody was hurt and nothing was
damaged. I was VERY lucky.
Don't take chances with something like this. It might be a bad seal and
only be diff oil leaking out but if your master cyl has needed a refil I'd
not take a chance. Don't roll that truck one foot till it's fixed.
Best of luck.
-=-
----- Original Message -----
From: "DaveCole" <davidcole@tk7.net>
To: "Military Vehicles List" <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 10:42 AM
Subject: [MV] 5 Ton question
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> I've got a '62 M51 5 Ton dump and I've noticed that it appears that some
liquid,
> either oil or brake fluid has showed up running down the inside surface of
a
> couple of my tires. It is not doing this in great quantity, just enough
to notice
> it. Also my right front wheel has become lightly coated with what
appears to be
> oil also. I'm using this dump truck more and more. I did top up the
brake master
> cylinder this spring and it has dropped probably 1/2" in the last 300
miles.
> Consequently I'm not too concerned about losing a lot of brake fluid. I'm
also
> not too concerned about losing axle lube, if that is what is leaking out
slowly, I
> can certainly keep up with the levels by proper maintenance. After all
the truck
> is almost 40 years old. I'm more concerned about whether or not this lube
or
> brake fluid or both will make it's way to the brake linings and interfere
with
> braking. I had 25K lbs of gravel on the truck the other day and the
brakes worked
> fine. What should I expect? What would you guys recommend? Anything?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
>
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