Re: IML: Disc Brakes in '56???

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

Those brakes were not an option. The cars that had them were not available with drum brakes and vice versa. Since you are seeing them in 1956 related literature they must have been used that year. My recollection is that the disc brakes were installed on Eight Passenger Sedans and limos, and Town & Country models in 1950. I knew of someone with a 1950 Town & Country Hardtop that came that way. 

As you stated, these disc brakes are nothing like what we refer to by that name today. You just think that you are having one "H" of a time working on your Center Plane brakes. Ask someone who has had to repair/rebuild/find parts for the old disc style.

By the way, those support plates can be rebuilt. The ones on my '62 would not hold an adjustment due to worn friction fit parts. The mechanic that helped me get all of my brakes working again took them to his shop for a couple of weeks and brought them back working fine. I never did ask him about it since I assumed it wasn't a big deal.

Paul

In an email dated 5/4/2005 12:57:09 am GMT Daylight time, JCantor791@xxxxxxx writes:

>I've been scouring my factory parts manual in an effort to find replacement 
>front brake supports for my car (gotta love center plane brakes) and noticed 
>information for a disc brake system. ?The sketches in the manual don't look 
>anything like the modern disc brakes we see today. ?Does anyone have a picture of 
>this system? ?How popular was it? ?Was it an improvement over the "full 
>contact, center plane brakes" that were standard that year?
>
>Jeff
>'56 Sedan (in need of those center planes...)
>Trenton, NJ
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