[DeTomaso] dual rear calipers

[Pantdino]

That's how my car was set up when I got it.  After about 15 years I was getting dragging of the rear calipers so I took them all off and apart. One caliper had a seized piston and was not salvageable so I went back to the one caliper per wheel system.  I had always noted the car was hard to push around in the garage, but it had gotten worse. After making that change it was much easier.




-----Original Message-----
From: MikeLDrew <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
To: oldwheel <oldwheel at shaw.ca>; detomaso <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 9, 2012 6:28 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso]   dual rear calipers



In a message dated 9/9/12 18 25 31, oldwheel at shaw.ca writes:


> Mike Dailey's request about rear calipers got me thinking again, about
> adding a second stock caliper to my stock rear bakes. ( Ford era ).
> 
> If anyone has succeeded in this endeavor and has any photos of how you did
> it to send, me, I'd be very thankful to you for that.
> 

>>>It's a fairly straightforward procedure.   You just bolt a second set of 
calipers on the rear, and remove the pressure reduction valve in the front. 
  Run a T-fitting from the two rear flex hoses to the hard line on each 
side, and you're in business.   It adds a ton of weight, and there are far, far 
better ways to get improved braking, but if you have a spare set of stock 
calipers lying around, then it's an almost no-cost upgrade.

I wouldn't buy a set of calipers to do this though.

Mike
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