Medium duty trucks used to have drive shaft brakes that could be cobbled from junkyard parts.
I use the hand brake on all manner of vehicles (yes, sometimes up north in the winter). I do not find this to be a problem. Is this just habit based on older vehicles? I seem to remember having to jog some truck other to get the rear wheels to turn, but I didn't quit using the E brake all together and the problem was not chronic. Another alternative is to turn your wheels so thy hit the curb. You need a little incline for this. Or instead of chocks you can swing a 4 foot length of chain around a wheel so it wraps into the crack fore and aft the contact patch. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Cor van de Water via EV <[email protected] > wrote: > Some factory conversions like the US Electricar > have added the shifter from the automatic gearbox version, > as well as the parking pawl that drops into the teeth on > the flywheel IIRC, the rest of the shifter is unused except > for operating a switch that tells the controller whether it > needs to move the vehicle forward or reverse (and it can > activate different regen settings for the different forward > "gear" selection positions). > > For a home conversion - I don't know. Carry a cobblestone to > place in front of the wheel? > > Cor van de Water > Chief Scientist > Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com > Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info > Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of xfmr via EV > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 8:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EVDL] winter parking brake > > I searched but didn't find a similar question. If one exists and I > missed it > please redirect me. > > My question concerns manual transmissions and parking in the winter. We > don't use a parking brake in the winter here since the pads and shoes > freeze > to metal parts. With no engine compression to hold the vehicle what > have > others done? > > Thank you for replys > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/winter-park > ing-brake-tp4669990.html > <http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/winter-parking-brake-tp4669990.html> > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140620/000dace7/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
