[tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.

  • From: "w.wood" <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:07:15 -0400

Yes any bus from 53 to 67
On Jul 9, 2011 9:01 AM, "James Dwan" <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Would this work with an earlier Bus?
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> --- On Sat, 7/9/11, w.wood <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: w.wood <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, July 9, 2011, 8:42 AM
>
> 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,
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>> but I am told I have to find a different reservoir and I need to weld a
>> bracket..
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>> From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
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>> Of w.wood
>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 9:08 PM
>> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.
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>> 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:
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>> Denis: Now aren't you damn glad we hasseled you till you got an E-brake.
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>> Without the E-brake you would have backed Murray into a tree this time.
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>> --- On Fri, 7/8/11, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
>
>> Subject: [tcb] Brakes, always the brakes.
>> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Friday, July 8, 2011, 1:46 PM
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>> After Danny and Derrick went all though my brakes and even replaced a
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>> backing plate and set up the E-brake, I felt so grateful, telling them
that
>> Murray has never had good brakes.
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>> So I am turning off Nob Hill Road and onto Beartrap (for you who have
never
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> I got to my house and found NO fluid in the reservoir. I filled it with
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>> 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#*^.
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>> Getting to the top of the horrendously steep hill. Right to the very top,
my
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> As all this is happening there is an old woman standing on her porch
across
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>> 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.
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>> So, if I put in the clutch so I can start the motor, I start rolling. The
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> I am thinking that I am going to hire a hit man to take out Derrick and
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>> Danny, but it turned out to be a split brake line, so.
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>> 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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