[tcb] Re: Brakes, always the brakes.

  • From: "w.wood" <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 22:07:59 -0400

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:
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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
>
>
>  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.
>
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>
> 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.
>
>
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> 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.
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> 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…
>
>
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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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