BENDIX BW7300 User Manual

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Bendix® ES™ (Extended Service) “Wide Brakes”

Help Cool Down Brake Costs and Extend Reline Intervals

When it comes to reliability, durability, and top-quality performance,

do your brakes stack up? They do if they’re Bendix Service) “Wide Brakes” – from Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC. The Bendix advanced shoe construction and geometry control with wider brakes for steer, drive, and trailer axles, producing longer life and superior performance – saving your fleet costly maintenance and downtime.

Wide Brake system combines proprietary linings with

Cool Running, Long-Lasting Durability

It’s a fact: cooler brakes mean longer lining life. Advanced engineering and ongoing testing allows Bendix a higher level of performance and more miles between brake relines.

ES™ Wide Brakes to provide you with

ES™ (Extended

The original thick lining brake, Bendix more wearable lining than standard configurations and are the only brakes using Bendix exclusive ES lining materials for optimum brake and drum life. A wider brake combats high brake temperatures caused by repeated brake applications. Lower brake temperatures also reduce or eliminate tire bead temperature and wheel seal life problems that often result from high brake heat.

The combination of more wearable lining material along with increased brake width and cooler operating temperatures – has helped Bendix ES on a typical tractor trailer by 60% and on severe service applications by more than 100%.

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Wide Brakes increase brake life

ES™ Wide Brakes provide

Uncompromising Performance, Outstanding Value

Today, most fleets are looking for new ways to better manage margins and overall cost without sacrificing performance and quality.

Bendix this need. The effectiveness of “Wide Brake” operation is proven to help eliminate one or more brake relines over the life of the vehicle.

ES™ Wide Brakes were designed and developed to address

Considering Wide Brakes?

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Bendix® ES™ (Extended Service) “Wide Brakes”

Bendix® ES™ Wide Brakes feature our exclusive Single Anchor Pin Product design that:

• Offers superior internal geometry control of shoe to drum contact with a fixed single anchor pin

• Features a patented, “Hot-Staked” shoe manufacturing process for improved quality and structural fatigue life

• Reduces component stresses due to a larger anchor pin diameter and partial cancellation of shoe forces within the pin (not in the spider/torque plate)

• Reduces lining to drum pressures due to a longer lining arc

• Uses premium, exclusive brake lining formulas for longer life, including new “Transfer Film” technology linings

Not Just For Severe Service Applications

The Bendix® “Wide Brake” is the right choice for a wide range of vocations, including:

• Highway tractor trailer

combinations

• School bus applications

• Tanker and bulk unloaders

• Municipal service vehicles

• In-town delivery trucks

Millions of on-road vehicle miles across a wide range of applications show that the Bendix “Wide Brake” enables a dramatic decrease in brake costs and extended reline intervals.

• Vehicles with lift axles

• Refuse vehicles

• Logging trucks; or

• Vehicles where steep grades are regularly experienced

Complete Service and Support

Bendix air drum brakes are now part of Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC, your single complete source for brake system design, manufacturing, hardware, and support for all foundation brake components and actuation systems.

But your peace of mind doesn’t end there. You have access to our Web site, www.foundationbrakes.com, our toll-free number, and the support of a complete multi-tier field sales and service organization including Bendix, Dana and Roadranger.

The Bendix Advantage at a Glance

FEATURES BENEFITS

Fixed Single Anchor Pin Design

Larger Anchor Pin

Hot Staked Brake Shoe

More Wearable Lining

E-Coated Brake Shoes

Bendix® ES™ Extended Service Part and Model Numbers

Application Model Size GAWR

Steer – Tractor/Truck ES-165-5L 16.5” x 5” 12,000 – 14,000 lbs.

Steer – Truck ES-165-7D 16.5” x 7” 16,000 – 23,000 lbs.

Drive – Tractor/Truck ES-165-8D 16.5” x 8.63” 17,000 – 23,000 lbs.

Drive – Truck ES-165-8S 16.5” x 8.63” 24,000 – 26,000 lbs.

Trailer ES-165-8F 16.5” x 8.63” 17,000 – 23,000 lbs.

Superior geometry control for longer brake life

Reduced stress enables extended brake life

Improved durability and geometry control

Longer brake life and fewer relines over the life of your vehicle

Minimizes rust jacking issues

Wider brakes help reduce operating costs across a wide range of vocations.

Cool Running. Long-Lasting Durability

Discover how Bendix® ES™ Wide Brakes can save you time and money without sacrificing quality. Get all the details. Talk to your Bendix or Roadranger representative. Call 1-866-610-9709 or visit www.foundationbrakes.com today.

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