When it comes to reliability, durability and top-quality performance, do your brakes stack up? They do if they’re Bendix® ES™ (Extended Service) “Wide Brakes” – from Bendix Spicer Foundation Brake LLC. The Bendix® Wide Brake system combines proprietary linings with advanced shoe construction, and geometry control with wider brakes for steer, drive and trailer axles, producing longer life and superior performance – saving your fleet costly maintenance and downtime.

Cool Running, Long Lasting Durability

It’s a fact: cooler brakes mean longer lining life. Advanced engineering and ongoing testing allows Bendix® ES™ Wide Brakes to provide you with a higher level of performance and more miles between brake relines.

The original thick lining brake, Bendix® ES™ Wide Brakes provide more wearable lining than standard configurations and are the only brakes using Bendix exclusive ES lining materials for optimum brake and drum life. A wider brake combats high brake temperatures caused by repeated brake applications. Lower brake temperatures also reduce or eliminate tire bead temperature and wheel seal life problems that often result from high brake heat.

The compounding of three key elements: increased brake width, the physical addition of more lining, and premium, long-life lining materials have helped Bendix® ES™ Wide Brakes increase brake life on a typical tractor trailer by 25% and on severe service applications by 50%.

The Bendix Advantage at a Glance 

Uncompromising Performance, Outstanding Value

Today, most fleets are looking for new ways to better manage margins and overall cost without sacrificing performance and quality. Bendix® ES™ Wide Brakes were designed and developed to address this need. The effectiveness of “Wide Brake” operation is proven to help eliminate one or more brake relines over the life of the vehicle.

Bendix® ES™ Wide Brakes feature our exclusive Single Anchor Pin Product design that:

• Offers superior internal geometry control of shoe to drum contact with a fixed single anchor pin
• Features a patented, “Hot-Staked” shoe manufacturing process for improved quality and structural fatigue life
• Reduces component stresses due to a larger anchor pin diameter and partial cancellation of shoe forces within the pin (not in the spider/torque plate)
• Reduces lining to drum pressures due to a longer lining arc
• Uses premium, exclusive brake lining formulas for longer life, including new “Transfer Film” technology linings

Not Just For Severe Service Applications

The Bendix “Wide Brake” is the right choice for a wide range of vocations, including:

• Highway tractor trailer combinations
• School Bus applications
• Tanker and bulk unloaders
• Municipal service vehicles
• In-town delivery trucks
• Vehicles with lift axles
• Refuse vehicles
• Logging trucks; or
• Vehicles where steep grades are regularly experienced

Millions of on-road vehicle miles across a wide range of applications show that the Bendix “Wide Brake” enables a dramatic decrease in brake costs and extended reline intervals.

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