ArvinMeritor's reman shoes fight corrosion
equipment 34 Commercial Carrier Journal April 2009 Write on Reader Service Card ArvinMeritor has introduced remanufactured brake shoes with a special platinum-gray coating designed to protect against corrosion and rust-jacking. Remanufactured Meritor shoes with PlatinumShield coating offer a three-year 300,000-mile warranty against rust-jacking. Used shoes are shot-blasted and proceed through a five-stage wash and pretreat-metal under the lining, causing the lin-ing to lift and crack. This has long been an industry problem, but it has become even more prevalent due to increased use of harsh liquid chemicals as winter road solvents, says Doug Wolma, gen-eral manager of remanufacturing for ArvinMeritor's Commercial Vehicle Aftermarket business. Starting in May, the remanufactured brake shoes with PlatinumShield coat-ing will be standard on all Meritor remanufactured production shoes with MA and R prefixes; Meritor MG1, MG2L, MG2, CG and MET OEM aftermarket shoes; and Fras-Le F550, F555, F577, F560, F587, F787T and Combo shoes. ment process with iron phosphate before the PlatinumShield coating is applied. ArvinMeritor's brake engineers developed the PlatinumShield coating to resist microabrasion caused by the movement of the brake lining against the shoe table during normal use. Rust-jacking occurs when rust forms on bare shoe ArvinMeritor's reman shoes fight corrosion ArvinMeritor's PlatinumShield remanu-factured brake shoes offer a three-year 300,000-mile warranty against rust-jacking.