BENDIX BW2600 Manuale Utente

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Preventive Maintenance is as easy as 1-2-3
Adhering to a preventive maintenance schedule is crucial to 

keeping a vehicle’s air system clean and ensuring superior 

performance of all components that utilize system air— such 

as brakes, emissions equipment and automated manual 

transmissions. Depending on vocation, Bendix recommends 

a 1-, 2- or 3-year air dryer cartridge replacement on vehicles 

equipped with a Bendix

®

 compressor. 

For severe service application — such as residential refuse 

trucks or school buses — the air dryer cartridge should 

be replaced every year or 100,000 miles; for pick-up 

and delivery operations, or for double- and triple-trailer 

line haul trucks, every two years or 200,000 miles is the 

recommendation. Line-haul operations using a single trailer 

should swap the filter out every three (3) years or 300,000 

miles. The recommended intervals for trucks equipped with 

non-Bendix

®

  compressors  are  6  months  (50,000  miles), 

one year (100,000 miles) and two years (200,000 miles), 

respectively.  
More frequent intervals may be required depending 

on a vehicle’s age, its compressor condition, use of a 

non-Bendix compressor, the operating environment, the 

vehicle’s vocation, and its usage. In conjunction with these 

guidelines, fleets can determine the functionality of their 

filters  by  checking  for  moisture  in  the  air  brake  system 

monthly. If moisture is present, the air dryer cartridge may 

require replacement. Reference the Bendix Service Data 

Sheet of the specific air dryer for additional information. 

(Recommended  intervals  for  trucks  equipped  with  non-

Bendix  compressors  are  6  months  (50,000  miles),  one 

year  (100,000  miles)  and  two  years  (200,000  miles), 

respectively.)

Standard

Line haul, 
city delivery

5 or less

900

25,000

3 months

Every 3 years

Every 3 years

Medium

Double trailer 
trains, light transit, 
light off-highway

8 or less

450

12,000

2 months

Every 2 years

Every 2 years

High

Multiple trailer 
trains, city transit, 
heavy duty off-road

11 or less

300

6,000

1 month

Every year

Every year

The Bendix

®

 PuraGuard

®

 oil coalescing air dryer cartridge 

has an identical appearance to the standard air dryer 

cartridge, but contains oil coalescing media at the inlet of 

the desiccant bed.  This coalescing media provides a much 

higher level of oil removal compared to the standard air 

dryer cartridge.  The PuraGuard oil coalescing cartridge 

has all of the same functions as the standard cartridge and 

is used in applications where lower oil concentration levels 

are required.
IMPORTANT! When servicing, note that standard air dryer 

cartridges may be serviced with PuraGuard oil coalescing 

cartridges, however, PuraGuard oil coalescing air dryers or 

cartridges 

MUST only be serviced with like replacements.

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Drain reservoirs and change the desiccant cartridge more frequently if more than just traces of moisture are found in any of the reservoirs.

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