Equipping brake chambers with BrakeSentry™ Visual Brake Stroke Indicators provides drivers and technicians with a significant advantage, a quick and effective means to visually inspect and identify any brake out-of-adjustment conditions conditions that ordinarily remain undetected and increase your exposure to the high costs, risks and liabilities associated with trucking’s deadliest and most frequently cited defect. By using BrakeSentry™, the industry prescribed “applied stroke” inspection method can now be performed faster, safer and much more efficiently without the need to crawl under vehicles to physically mark and measure pushrod stroke.
Since the chamber’s pushrod stroke is physically limited, it is essential that stroke be maintained within the narrow margin of safe and effective operating limits. Therefore, whether accomplished manually or automatically, unless adjustment is within the effective stroke limits, it makes little difference how hard the driver presses on the brake pedal or how much air is delivered to the brake chambers.
