Or there's this.... You remove the single mc that has worked fine for 50 years and ask your mechanic to install a dual plus disk brakes cuz "you want to be safe". You get the car back and it stops fine. 6 months later you are driving on the freeway in the rain and traffic is stopped up ahead. You put on the brakes and the new front flex hose bursts because it was a little too short and positioned at too sharp an angle and has already fatigued. But you still have the rear brakes... but since you slam on the brakes because they are barely stopping the car (without the fronts you only have 20% braking capacity) the left rear locks up. The car slides out of control on the wet pavement, you spin across 3 lanes and into a gas tanker which bursts into flames.
Dozens of people flee in the ensuing panic, those who don't die in the fire are run over, the tanker was under a bridge, which weakened by the fire collapses cutting off access to a home for the elderly. Two of the elderly, seeing the melee, have heart attacks. They die because the ambulance couldn't get to them because the bridge was burned down by the tanker. If you'd still had the single MC on none of this would have happened... now single masters don't seem so bad! Jim Delton
From: Jim Rawa <000001299b98410f-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 7:38 AM
Subject: [FWDLK] dual masters- was RB 383 cam
Here's a scenario... you have a perfectly maintained single master brake system in your 57 Saratoga, while trying to tune in your restored AM radio, you look up while driving and see its too late! you just ran over an old guy crossing the street!!! he flies of the top of the car but his walker went under and folded and rolled, and subsequently caught and tore out your rear flexible hydraulic line! now you have no brakes and proceed to broadside a bus full of illegal immigrants, you go through the windshield upon impact due to lack of belts, airbags, and brakes, the bus flips, and all the passengers burn to death, though one good event took place lightening the burden on taxpayers, an old man, his walker, your car, and bodily well being were compromised! If you had a dual master, you may have still hit the old guy, but not the bus... now single masters don't seem so bad!
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From: Neil Vedder <esierraadj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Aug 5, 2014 3:10 am
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] RB 383 cam
LOL (not)....if they failed, they were not properly maintained, or
overhauled, to prevent such
failures from having occurred.
Neil Vedder
On 8/4/2014 4:37 PM, Ray Jones wrote:
The idea here is that with
Dual MC, you have 2 brake systems. Not much trouble to
plumb, using the tubing and components from a later year
car, it's a big safety upgrade.
And, yes, I have had
several MC's fail over the too many years I've been
driving these old jewels.
You said you had a wheel
cylinder fail, giving you a brake problem. With a dual
system, you would still have the other half to get home
on.
A total upgrade with
calipers and rotors on the front, and better yet on the
back also is a real improvement and brings the car up to
highway cruising safety standards.
Ray in Mena, AR
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