[tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.

  • From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 16:28:22 -0500

Can you send the details? I would like to have dual circuit, but I was told
it was a PIA. 

 

From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of w.wood
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 4:22 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.

 

I know a machinist.  He makes parts for me from time to time.  That's how I
did mine.  He made 6 for me.  I still have the drawing I gave him. 

You have to get a late year bay bus master cylinder.  That is the hard part.

On Jul 9, 2011 1:36 PM, "James Dwan" <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think I need to invest in a dual MC for the '59. Let us know if you get
that deal worked out Terry.
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> --- On Sat, 7/9/11, theresabuckner@xxxxxxx <theresabuckner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: theresabuckner@xxxxxxx <theresabuckner@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, July 9, 2011, 12:51 PM
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> will                I have 2 of the high dollar spacers     I am working a
deal to get them duplicated      terry
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> From: w.wood <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
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> To: tcb <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Sat, Jul 9, 2011 12:07 pm
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> Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.
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> Yes any bus from 53 to 67
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> 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>
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>> Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.
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>> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> Date: Saturday, July 9, 2011, 8:42 AM
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>> 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 .
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>> On Jul 9, 2011 7:03 AM, "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>>> From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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>>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 9:08 PM
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>>> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>> Subject: [tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.
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>>> I'm curious, you're not running a single circuit master cylinder are
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>>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:09 PM, sammie smith
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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>
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>>> Subject: [tcb] Brakes, always the brakes.
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>>> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>> 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
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>>> 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
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>>> been to my house, there is a slope like a 100 yard ski jump. If you just
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>>> rolled down without applying brakes or using the engine to slow you, you
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>>> 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
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>>> use all my skill and abilities learned from years of losing brakes and
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>>> 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
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>>> 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
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>>> 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,
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>>> nothing. I am rolling backwards. I am going to be doing 45 MPH backward.
I
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>>> 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
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>>> 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
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>>> the street watching this. I feel like yelling out through the open
safari
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>>> 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.
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>>> slope is too steep for the E-brake to do more than slow me. I open the
door
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>>> and, without getting out, put my shoes, a big roll of paper towels and a
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>>> 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,
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>>> "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
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>>> line and bled all around and now I have good brakes. 
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