Vehicle report
Technical service bulletins are instructions a manufacturer sent its dealers about a known fault. They are not recalls and the work is usually not free, but they are the clearest signal of a problem the manufacturer already knows about.
REL-IB-027
McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing provides these instructions for replacing hardware on the front ejector shoes of a Rear Loader refuse vehicle in order to create greater clearance between the hardware and the ejector track. The potential clearance issue is specific to vehicles with hex head fasteners at the front lower and upper ejector shoes.
MISC-IB-084-A
McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing requires an inspection and replacement, if needed, to ensure the Bob Tail® Huck® bolts are fully swaged with correct thread exposure on the rear pivot cross member body mounts. Revision A updates the replacement bolt length to 90mm
MISC-IB-084
McNeilus Truck and Manufacturing requires an inspection and replacement, if needed, to ensure the Bob Tail® Huck® bolts are fully swaged with correct thread exposure on the rear pivot cross member body mounts.
Complaint counts are reports filed with NHTSA, not failure rates. A common model collects more of them than a rare one that breaks more often.