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Michael J Langley
Jul 3, 2017 - 11:01PM
Re: Spare wheels for Routemasters

roythebus
also to note of roadside repairs is that the person carrying out the repair appreciates that the rear wheels will only fit in one position. Again the number of times I've seen rear wheels incorrectly fitted... I think the last was fairly recently when roy was doing some work on a n East Kent RegentV. that also had oval holes on the front wheels where it had been run with the front wheel nuts loose.

That had to have the holes built up with weed and the holes machined out to original.


As we know rear road wheels are removed for a variety of reasons:- brake shoe & drum change, hub repairs, puncture, garage tyre change, coach work, etc.

All LT bus mechanics were taught the sequence in which to adopt when refitting rear road wheels to an RM.

Most rear drums were fitted with a anti squeal band. On offering up the inner wheel the fixture buckle of the squeal band has to be in a position opposite or 180 degrees from the air inflation valve/stem on that 1st wheel. When offering up the 2nd wheel its valve/stem again had to 180 degrees opposite the inner wheels valve stem.

The reason for this strategy was to keep the inner wheel valve stem away from the band buckle for fear of it fracturing the inner wheel valve stem.

My bus number (if any): Ex LTE Bus Engineering

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roy
Jul 4, 2017 - 7:08AM
Re: Spare wheels for Routemasters

In which case there must also have been a papal encyclical stipulating the position of the turnbuckle in relation to wheel stud holes and the drum location stud holes!

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