[DeTomaso] RM Auction - Pantera # 5538 PARKING BRAKE

[Ken Green]

Jack,

    I thought about is just being a hydraulic parking brake, but it looks like 2 lines come out of it, but I guess one could be to a reservoir.

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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]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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   Jack,
       I thought about is just being a hydraulic parking brake, but it
   looks like 2 lines come out of it, but I guess one could be to a
   reservoir.
   [1]http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=1066204
   From: "jderyke at aol.com" <jderyke at aol.com>
   To: michael at michaelshortt.com; kenn_green at yahoo.com
   Cc: detomaso at poca.com
   Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 4:05 PM
   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] RM Auction - Pantera # 5538 PARKING BRAKE
   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][2]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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