Thomas Built Bus. Published by Transport Canada as 1986136 on 2 December 1986. System: Brakes.
What the notice says On vehicles incorporating gmc or chevrolet flat faced bus chassis with hydraulic brakes, the flexible steel protected tubing which is installed on heater hoses routed on the left hand side of the engine may contact and chafe against the primary and/or secondary hydraulic brake lines connecting to the master brake …
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Thomas Built BUS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Thomas Built BUS is named on 120 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1986136
- Recall date
- 2 December 1986
- Make
- Thomas Built
- Models
- Bus
- Model years
- 1984 to 1986
- Vehicle class
- Bus
- System
- Brakes
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,488
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
ON VEHICLES INCORPORATING GMC OR CHEVROLET FLAT FACED BUS CHASSIS WITH HYDRAULIC BRAKES, THE FLEXIBLE STEEL PROTECTED TUBING WHICH IS INSTALLED ON HEATER HOSES ROUTED ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE ENGINE MAY CONTACT AND CHAFE AGAINST THE PRIMARY AND/OR SECONDARY HYDRAULIC BRAKE LINES CONNECTING TO THE MASTER BRAKE CYLINDER. THIS CHAFING ACTION MAY EVENTUALLY WEAR THE HYDRAULIC BRAKE LINES TO THE POINT OF RUPTURE RESULTING IN LOSS OF BRAKING POWER. CORRECTION: BRACKETS WILL BE INSTALLED TO PREVENT HEATER HOSE FROM CONTACTING BRAKE LINES.
Transport Canada recorded this notice in capitals, as its system did for many years. It is reproduced here exactly as published.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1986136.
Thomas Built elsewhere in this register
Thomas Built is named on 214 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1985128 · 19 November 1985 · Minotour Bus, Minotour School Bus · Not Entered
- 1985002 · 3 January 1985 · R.e. Pusher · Not Entered
- 1990055 · 10 April 1990 · School Bus · Seats And Restraints
- 1982020 · 12 February 1982 · 3100 Bus, 3100 School Bus · Not Entered
- 1982015 · 29 January 1982 · Bus, School Bus · Not Entered
- 1981111 · 12 November 1981 · School Bus · Not Entered
- 1992027 · 13 March 1992 · School Bus, Bus · Lights And Instruments
- 1992088 · 22 July 1992 · Bus · Other
The same system: Brakes
791 notices in this register name Brakes. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1986131 · 20 November 1986 · Comanche · Brakes
- 1986115 · 9 October 1986 · Fifth Avenue, Caravelle, Diplomat · Brakes
- 1986020 · 7 February 1986 · Ram Van, Ramcharger, Ram · Brakes
- 1987003 · 6 January 1987 · Trailer · Brakes
- 1987008 · 27 January 1987 · P Series · Brakes
- 1987102 · 23 September 1987 · Ranger · Brakes
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Thomas Built: 214 in the register, and 147 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1986.
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