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Be careful using ether on a glow plug engine. It can do serious damage. Check to make sure glow plugs are working and crack a nut at an injector to make sure it is getting fuel. How many miles in the engine? What is the exact history on this problem? Did it only start happening after IP...

What brand? Non-separating grease is the Holy Grail for my grease gun

Mine was the same as the replacement they sent me. tYruck is a 1999. What is the year of the truck in the picture?

Dug into it today at my friend’s house since he has a lift. Both U shaped springs which hold the shoes to the backing plate had lost all tension, just flopping around. So I replaced them with new. Haven’t driven far yet but no screeching or squealing

The replacement I got from Mitsubishi is set up a little different than the one pictured.

Thanks for the picture and the advice. I’m hoping I can repair mine without having to remove the big nut.

The shop manual says that the nuts holding the front driveshaft flange to the yoke at the back of the transfer case are non-reusable. Anyone know why? Anyone reused them? I’m about to dig into the parking brake assembly to fix my loose shoe. Also says o-ring behind large yoke nut is not...

We have AC in our Northstar TS1000. We don’t use it often or much but it’s nice to have in certain conditions. 104 or so in Nebraska recently. Run the AC in late afternoon or evening to cool camper down then shut off and open windows after dark. I’d probably run it all night in FL in summer.

Busbees sells used Fuso parts

Thanks. Tom’s Truck Parts sells the whole assembly so I’ll order everything and get it up to snuff as the truck has 230k miles on it. Probably wait until I get home to do it. or maybe to a friends house since he has a lift. I stopped using the emergency brake and the squeak/squeal has pretty...

Without disassembly I discovered the exact problem. The pin/spring/90 degree twist washer which attaches the right shoe is no longer tight. I was able to determine this by grasping the pin at the outside of the backing plate and moving it around. The left side pin is completely tight. Anyone...

It does have a bearing about 30” behind the brake. That’s what made me suspect that more would need to be removed than just the front u joint bolts.

Thanks. It didn’t appear to me that the shaft would slide back enough to remove the drum and I thought the whole driveshaft might have to be dropped

We installed a propane Dickinson in our Northstar. Dickinsons can operate without electricity

Yes, possibly. I’m on the road and considering delaying further investigation until I get home. By the way, it’s a 99 FG.

I suspect the spring which retracts the emergency brake shoes has broken or come detached as I am getting some brake squeak at low speeds which coincides with driveshaft rotation. Anybody mess with that system? Doesn’t seem like it is a pressing fix. Is there a reason to think otherwise?

At some time 200X Fuso uprated their US FG’s from 12k GWVR to 14k. I’ve never been able to determine what they actually did to the chassis, if anything, to accomplish that. I’ve wondered if it was simply done to reclassify the truck as medium duty and not light duty.

Just met a guy in the Walmart parking lot in Rivière du Loop, Quebec who just bought a 2012 FG to convert into a camper. Welcome aboard if you haven’t posted here yet.

There’s a review on that site saying they are useless because they shake too much

Thanks. It looked to me as though the ripped fabric was attached at the sides with metal loops. I was considering cutting a piece of corroplast slightly smaller than the fabric, putting it over the original fabric then lacing cord back and forth through the loops. Haven’t got a good enough look...