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Is it legal to replace manual slack adjusters with automatic slack adjusters and do both sides of axle have to be replaced?
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∙ 12y ago
Looking through FMCSR 393.47, the only requirement I see in there is that the effective length of a slack adjuster on each end of an axle must be the same.
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∙ 12y ago
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