[DeTomaso] RM Auction - Pantera # 5538 PARKING BRAKE

[jderyke at aol.com]

 Best guess: someone else has noticed that U.S- legal parking brakes do not need to be cable operated; it just turns out to be the cheapest way for auto manufacturers to comply. A hand-operated master squeezing a pair of small hydraulic calipers are perfectly legal as long as they're completely separated from the main brake system- including separate lines. I have a pair of small 2-piston Wilwood calipers I will probably use for such a system at some point, along with a small bore Girling master and a Ford pickup truck foot-operated e-brake lever. FWIW- J DeRyke




On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Ken Green <[1]kenn_green at yahoo.com>
   wrote:

     Did you see the parking brake, the handle is connected to a
     master cylinder. A Anyone know what is going on with it?
     Ken

 

 
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   Best guess: someone else has noticed that U.S- legal parking brakes do
   not need to be cable operated; it just turns out to be the cheapest way
   for auto manufacturers to comply. A hand-operated master squeezing a
   pair of small hydraulic calipers are perfectly legal as long as they're
   completely separated from the main brake system- including separate
   lines. I have a pair of small 2-piston Wilwood calipers I will probably
   use for such a system at some point, along with a small bore Girling
   master and a Ford pickup truck foot-operated e-brake lever. FWIW- J
   DeRyke

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Ken Green <[1][1]kenn_green at yahoo.com>
   wrote:

     Did you see the parking brake, the handle is connected to a
     master cylinder. A Anyone know what is going on with it?
     Ken

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