Title: Re: POLITICAL CORRECT or Brakes, What Brakes
To All,
We are slowly but surely running out of brake drums. No new 12” drums are around only (not so good) used. Even if we got new drums, the machines that press the hubs into them are next to extinct. Other size drums are more readily available but good used are hard to find also.
Total contact brakes are decent when you have all new parts and they are set up right. But we can’t get good parts reliably.
The brakes were never that good. I am old enough to remember them then and have gone thru a recent search for parts, 2 rebuilds by people who know what they are doing and it wasn’t until the 4 disc conversion on my 1960 Chrysler 300-F that I can drive comfortably and not worry about stopping straight or stopping in time ... And then doing it again in a short period of time without brake fade.
Racing and driving at high speeds is one thing, stopping these monsters is another.
Tony
From: Ron Allyn Swartley <Archangel1390@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Archangel1390@xxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:29:05 EST
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [FWDLK] ARE WE BEING POLITICAL CORRECT
Hi list,
I hear so many people talking about how they must convert over to disc brakes on a car that did not have them originally. WHY? From 56 until disc brakes came out these car were raced and driven at high speed and we had no problem other than a little brake fade.
Today a lot of these cars are not only NOT being raced and they are not even being driven near as fast as we use to drive them when they were almost new. However some still think we need disc brakes??????
Please don't say it is for towing-------who uses a vintage collector car for towing?
Maybe 1/2 or 1%. When there were fewer people on the highway and we and our cars were younger, maybe some of us drag raced up to a 100 MPH, or just drove up to 100+ MPH but today with the congested highways we just cruise to auto shows and drive it on nice days. Oh yeah, and dual master cylinders are safer----------Sure and how long will it be before they come out with a quad master cylinder which will be even safer!!!!!!!!!
Of course that is just my opinion, I could be wrong. (but I don't think so)
Ron Allyn Swartley
( still loose on the East Coast )
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