Glad Hand Truck Supplies

Glad Hand Truck Supplies

Glad Hand Truck Supplies. You have intertwining couplers connected with air lines for supply air from the tractor unit to the trailer unit for the air brakes. The trailer glad hand controls are coupled to the power unit through two glad hand connectors, which provides pressure, and an electrical cord, that gives power for the lights and any other features on the trailer unit.

A Glad hand connector is a air hose connector, That has a flat contact face and inline tabs. The rubber faces are placed together, and the glad hands are rotated so that the metal tabs engage one another to hold the connections together. This provides for a securer connection, and allows the couplers to separate without doing to much damage to the equipment if they happen to be pulled, This might happen when the tractor & trailer become detached before uncoupling the air lines connections. The connectors are comparable in design to the ones used for a similar purpose between railroad rail cars. Two different air lines control the trailer. The emergency or main air supply line forces air into the trailer's air tank then disconnects the emergency brake, then the second line (Service Line) controls the brake function.

Over in the United Kingdom the male-female quick release coupler (Red line,Emergency line) has the female on the truck and male on the trailer unit and a Yellow line (Service line) has the male coupler on the tractor and female on the trailer unit. Doing this avoids connection mistakes (Resulting in No Brakes) and the coupling will not detach when pulled by mistake. Three electrical lines will only connect one way around with the primary (Black) the secondary (Green) and also the ABS lead, these lines are mutually recognized as Suzies and Suzie Coils. Ok, Now that you know all that important information we have some very good deals on many of the parts that make up the entire air brake systems of most of the vehicle you just read about previously.