Kenworth Conventional. Published by Transport Canada as 1987139 on 18 December 1987. System: Suspension.
What the notice says Involved vehicles were manufactured with gunite front and/or rear hubs which may have been improperly cooled during manufacture by gunite. this could cause the hub(s) to eventually crack leading to total failure of the hub and resulting in loss of vehicle control and a crash without prior warning.
correction: …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1987139
- Recall date
- 18 December 1987
- Make
- Kenworth
- Models
- Conventional
- Model years
- 1987
- Vehicle class
- Truck - Med. & H.D.
- System
- Suspension
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 68
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
INVOLVED VEHICLES WERE MANUFACTURED WITH GUNITE FRONT AND/OR REAR HUBS WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN IMPROPERLY COOLED DURING MANUFACTURE BY GUNITE. THIS COULD CAUSE THE HUB(S) TO EVENTUALLY CRACK LEADING TO TOTAL FAILURE OF THE HUB AND RESULTING IN LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL AND A CRASH WITHOUT PRIOR WARNING.
CORRECTION: DEFECTIVE AND SUSPECT HUBS WILL BE REPLACED.
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 1987139.
Kenworth elsewhere in this register
Kenworth is named on 263 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1988026 · 2 March 1988 · Conventional · Other
- 1988034 · 10 March 1988 · T600a · Structure
- 1988123 · 22 August 1988 · 379, Lw900b, 375 · Steering
- 1988138 · 12 October 1988 · Conventional, C.o.e. · Suspension
- 1988139 · 12 October 1988 · Conventional, C.o.e. · Engine
- 1986122 · 5 November 1986 · W900, Hustler, K100 · Suspension
- 1985055 · 10 May 1985 · Truck · Not Entered
- 1985056 · 10 May 1985 · Truck · Not Entered
The same system: Suspension
746 notices in this register name Suspension. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1987122 · 5 November 1987 · Truck · Suspension
- 1987123 · 5 November 1987 · Truck · Suspension
- 1987107 · 9 October 1987 · C.o.e., Conventional · Suspension
- 1987077 · 31 July 1987 · Conventional · Suspension
- 1987073 · 14 July 1987 · GTI · Suspension
- 1987055 · 28 May 1987 · Conventional · Suspension
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 notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Blue Bird Conventional, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Kenworth: 263 in the register, and 142 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1987.
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