# Service bulletin FS\-2016\-06

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: 10115971
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-25
- Manufacturer's number: FS\-2016\-06
- Manufacturer's date: 2016\-12\-20
- NHTSA component: STEERING; EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY; EQUIPMENT; STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\)

## NHTSA's summary

Gillig has received reports of partial cracking in the steering gear mounting plate in some Low Floor buses. We are now requesting that owners of all Low Floor buses from model year 1997 through June, 2015 inspect the steering gear mounting plates per the instructions in this bulletin. Inspections should commence at the next Preventative Maintenance Cycle and continue at every 12,000 mile PM inspection thereafter. Steering Gear Mounting Plates found to have cracks less than 6 inches in length should be changed out at the earliest opportunity. Any bus found to have a Steering Gear Mounting Plate with a crack 6 inches long or longer must be immediately removed from service and the Plate replaced before reentering service. In either instance, Gillig will reimburse owners the cost of any replacement plate and the labor required to perform the repair. Lower floor

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10115971-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10115971-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Equipment and accessories, Steering, Steering gear

## Vehicles listed

- 1997 to 2008 GILLIG 29 FOOT LOW FLOOR
- 1997 to 2008 GILLIG 35 AND 40 FOOT LOW FLOOR
- 1998 to 1999 GILLIG BUS
- 2002 GILLIG BUS
- 1997 to 2016 GILLIG LOW FLOOR
- 2001 GILLIG LOW FLOOR 29'
- 1997 GILLIG MOTORHOME
- 2002 GILLIG MOTORHOME
- 1997 to 2009 GILLIG PHANTOM
- 2002 GILLIG SCHOOL BUS

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