[tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.

  • From: "chuck" <sukchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 09:33:36 -0500

Don't confuse Denis with assemblying parts from more than one car.
oleblue
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: w.wood 
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 8:42 AM
  Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.


  No you can use parts that work with your configuration.  I use late bus 
master cylinders with rabbit reservoirs and a Spacer you can get from via boys. 
 It gets around trying to find '67 m/c .

  On Jul 9, 2011 7:03 AM, "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
  > That is what comes in a '63. I have discussed changing to a dual circuit,
  > but I am told I have to find a different reservoir and I need to weld a
  > bracket..
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
  > Of w.wood
  > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 9:08 PM
  > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  > Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > I'm curious, you're not running a single circuit master cylinder are you?
  > 
  > 
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  > 
  > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:09 PM, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  > wrote:
  > 
  > 
  > Denis: Now aren't you damn glad we hasseled you till you got an E-brake.
  > Without the E-brake you would have backed Murray into a tree this time.
  > 
  > --- On Fri, 7/8/11, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
  > 
  > 
  > From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
  > Subject: [tcb] Brakes, always the brakes.
  > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  > Date: Friday, July 8, 2011, 1:46 PM
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > After Danny and Derrick went all though my brakes and even replaced a
  > backing plate and set up the E-brake, I felt so grateful, telling them that
  > Murray has never had good brakes. 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > So I am turning off Nob Hill Road and onto Beartrap (for you who have never
  > been to my house, there is a slope like a 100 yard ski jump. If you just
  > rolled down without applying brakes or using the engine to slow you, you
  > would be doing about 125 MPH at the bottom. All right, you might be doing
  > 45), so I apply my brakes AND THE PEDDLE GOES RIGHT TO THE FLOOR. I had to
  > use all my skill and abilities learned from years of losing brakes and
  > crashing in to trees and rocks and such to control my speed. I quickly took
  > off my sandal and used my toes to pull the brake pedal up and was able to
  > pump up the brakes enough to remain under control. 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > I got to my house and found NO fluid in the reservoir. I filled it with
  > brake fluid and took off for the shop thinking that I won't need brakes
  > going uphill and I can put Murray on the lift to see what's the F#*^. 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > Getting to the top of the horrendously steep hill. Right to the very top, my
  > tires slipped on some loose rocks and Murray stalled. I put on the brakes,
  > nothing. I am rolling backwards. I am going to be doing 45 MPH backward. I
  > get it into 1st gear and USE THE EMERGENCY BRAKE! I HAVE ONE NOW!. I stop
  > rolling. I am at a diagonal now, thinking that, if I lose it, I will run my
  > ass end into the bushes and, if I am lucky, won't roll over. 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > As all this is happening there is an old woman standing on her porch across
  > the street watching this. I feel like yelling out through the open safari
  > window to call 911 or triple A, or bring me a cinder block. I don't. 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > So, if I put in the clutch so I can start the motor, I start rolling. The
  > slope is too steep for the E-brake to do more than slow me. I open the door
  > and, without getting out, put my shoes, a big roll of paper towels and a
  > book behind the wheel as a chock. I push in the clutch.and it holds! I start
  > the bus and go. I am exhausted but elated. I look at the old lady and say,
  > "I about lost it there". She goes inside without comment. 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > I am thinking that I am going to hire a hit man to take out Derrick and
  > Danny, but it turned out to be a split brake line, so. 
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > I installed a new brake light switch(unrelated problem) and replaced the
  > line and bled all around and now I have good brakes. 
  > 
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