[DeTomaso] dual rear calipers

[B. Seib]

Thanks Jim
Did/Does your car have a prop valve? the stock one? Did you notice a change
in braking when you removed the calipers?
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Pantdino [mailto:pantdino at aol.com]
  Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 9:53 PM
  To: MikeLDrew at aol.com; oldwheel at shaw.ca; detomaso at realbig.com
  Subject: Re: [DeTomaso]   dual rear calipers


  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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