[DeTomaso] RM Auction - Pantera # 5538 PARKING BRAKE

[jderyke at aol.com]

Don't know of any. But if I did it, I would first move the stock lever to the drivers' side: easier access & better leverage for shorter drivers.
 


It seems creative to use the existing parking brake lever and locking teeth features to operate a master cylinder, have others done that?

 

 

 

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From: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
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Jack,


   It seems creative to use the existing parking brake lever and locking teeth features to operate a master cylinder, have others done that?


Ken

  
 
 
 
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 Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 4:05 PM
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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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   Don't know of any. But if I did it, I would first move the stock lever
   to the drivers' side: easier access & better leverage for shorter
   drivers.

     It seems creative to use the existing parking brake lever and
     locking teeth features to operate a master cylinder, have others
     done that?

   -----Original Message-----
   From: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
   To: jderyke <jderyke at aol.com>; michael <michael at michaelshortt.com>
   Cc: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
   Sent: Sun, May 11, 2014 6:09 pm
   Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] RM Auction - Pantera # 5538 PARKING BRAKE
   Jack,
      It seems creative to use the existing parking brake lever and
   locking teeth features to operate a master cylinder, have others done
   that?
   Ken
   From: "[1]jderyke at aol.com" <[2]jderyke at aol.com>
   To: [3]michael at michaelshortt.com; [4]kenn_green at yahoo.com
   Cc: [5]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][6]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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