# Service bulletin PS\-13\-8

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10036588
- Published by NHTSA: 2011\-04\-04
- Manufacturer's number: PS\-13\-8
- Manufacturer's date: 2010\-11\-29
- NHTSA component: SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SLACK ADJUSTERS:AUTOMATIC

## NHTSA's summary

THOMAS BUILT BUS: ALL MODELS OF THOMAS BUSES USING AUTOMATIC SLACK ADJUSTERS. THE AUTOMATIC SLACK ADJUSTERS ARE ROUTINELY BEING ADJUSTED BY SOME OPERATORS AND SERVICE TECHNICIANS TO MAKE BRAKE PUSHROD STROKE APPEAR TO BE WITH LEGAL BRAKE ADJUSTMENT LIMITS, OR TO COMPENSATE FOR MIS\-DIAGNOSED OUT OF ADJUSTMENT CONDITIONS CAUSED BY WORN OR DAMAGED FOUNDATION BRAKE COMPONENTS. \*PE

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Brakes

## Vehicles listed

- 1994 THOMAS BUS
- 2002 THOMAS BUS
- 1997 THOMAS CHARTOUR
- 1997 THOMAS CITILINER
- 2001 THOMAS CL100
- 2000 THOMAS CL960
- 2008 THOMAS ER
- 2001 THOMAS ER MODEL
- 2002 THOMAS ER TRANSIT
- 2005 THOMAS FS\-65
- 2003 THOMAS HD
- 2005 THOMAS HDX
- 1996 THOMAS MIGHTY MITE
- 2005 THOMAS MINOTOUR
- 1994 THOMAS MPV
- 1996 THOMAS MPV ER
- 2003 THOMAS MVP
- 2008 THOMAS MVP EF
- 2008 THOMAS MVP ER
- 1994 THOMAS MVP TRANSIT LINER
- 1995 THOMAS NAVISTAR VISTA
- 2002 THOMAS SAF\-T\-LINER
- 2005 THOMAS SAF\-T\-LINER C2
- 2001 THOMAS SAF\-T\-LINER CONVENTIONAL
- 2005 THOMAS SAF\-T\-LINER ER
- 2001 THOMAS SAF\-T\-LINER HD
- 2004 THOMAS SCHOOL BUS
- 2001 THOMAS THOMAS
- 2000 THOMAS TL960
- 1994 THOMAS TRANSIT BUS
- 1994 THOMAS TRANSIT LINER
- 2001 THOMAS TRANSIT LINER ER
- 2001 THOMAS TRANSIT LINER HD
- 2000 THOMAS VISTA

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