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Old 12-31-2008, 09:18 PM
jaoneill jaoneill is offline
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Originally Posted by R Leo View Post
Dunno about a CAT but the park brake on the JCB 214 I have is completely separate from the road brakes.

I'd be willing to bet that 1) an operator runs with their foot on the brake(s) or 2) the brakes weren't adjusted properly (or possibly mis-assembled) from the outset and wore prematurely.
What R Leo said X2, any machine I have had; JD, Fiat, Komatsu, Kubota, Case all had separate parking brakes. The beauty of wet brakes is their longevity. I sold a tractor backhoe a while back with 14,000 hard commercial hours on the clock; original wet brakes worked fine.

Jim
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