Job Description:

• 1) Repairs and overhauls brake systems in automobiles, buses, trucks, and other automotive vehicles: Pushes handle of hydraulic jack or pushes hoist control to raise vehicle axle.

• 2) Removes wheels, using wrenches, wheel puller, and sledgehammer.

• 3) Replaces defective brakeshoe units or attaches new linings to brakeshoes.

• 4) Measures brakedrum to determine amount of wear, using feeler gauge.

• 5) Inserts vacuum gauge into power-brake cylinder, starts engine, and reads gauge to detect brake-line leaks.

• 6) Repairs or replaces leaky brake cylinders.

• 7) Repairs or replaces defective air compressor in airbrake systems.

• 8) Replaces wheel on axle and adjusts drumshoe clearance, using wrench.

• 9) Fills master brake cylinder with brake fluid, pumps brake pedal, or uses pressure tank, and opens valves on hydraulic brake system to bleed air from brake lines.

• 10) Closes valves and refills master brake cylinder.

• 11) May be designated according to specialty as Brake Repairer, Air; Brake Repairer, Bus; Brake Repairer, Hydraulic.