[tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.

  • From: "chuck" <sukchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 09:25:03 -0500

He only had 0ne ebrake and I couldn't convience him that he really should have 
a brake at both rear wheels.He always has trees to stop him.I guess it is 
easier to repair the body panels.
oleblue
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: w.wood 
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 12:24 AM
  Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.


  Well, normally I don't either if you're going vintage however for a driver 
I'd upgrade to dual circuit.  Most of these single circuit M/Cs on the market 
are crap nowadays.  Good think you had
  your E-Brake Denis.




  On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:23 PM, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

          He probably is, but guess what.  I am too.  I have no problem 
whatsoever with sc master cylinders and brake systems on VWs.

          --- On Fri, 7/8/11, w.wood <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


            From: w.wood <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
            Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.
            To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
            Date: Friday, July 8, 2011, 9:07 PM



            I'm curious, you're not running a single circuit master cylinder 
are you?





            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. 
                       
                   




            -- 
            My Email Moniker  
            http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,1570570433.aspx
         




  -- 
  My Email Moniker  
  http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,1570570433.aspx

Other related posts:

  1. Home
  2. tcb
  3. Archive
  4. 07-2011