[DeTomaso] Brake question

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/12/12 9 46 16, guson at home.se writes:


> Removing the shuttle valve will not affect brake performance at all, 
> right?
> The prop valve is different.
> 

Ah, my mistake--I was confusing the two!

Removing the shuttle valve will not affect brake performance as long as the 
system is replumbed so that the front and rear systems are separate and 
independent, and so long as the stock front pressure reduction valve remains in 
place.

If the shuttle valve block is kept in place and simply is gutted by 
removing the internals, then you have really screwed up your brakes, because now 
the front and rear systems are connected.   Any differential pressure created 
by the reduction valve will be offset by the fact that the systems are 
connected downstream.   The result would be excessive front braking/reduced rear 
braking (same as if you removed the pressure reduction valve), and also an 
elimination of any safety because now a failure in one circuit will affect 
the other one.

If the systems are mixed this way, then a dragging brake caliper that heats 
up the fluid, would eventually heat the fluid to the other three calipers.  
 Doom.

Rob--tell us exactly what you've got going on plumbing-wise?

Mike