When you're at -30 there is likely near zero humidity. On the other
hand, in temps from 20-30 there is much higher humidity and I would
think brake freezing would be more likely. It's only happened to me a
few times. I found that by rocking the car forward and back, gently,
they eventually freed up. Hard to do on ice, though.
Peri
------ Original Message ------
From: "SLPinfo.org via EV" <[email protected]>
To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: 20-Jun-14 9:29:22 AM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] winter parking brake
Although I now live in Oregon, I grew up in northern Alberta Canada
where
temps can get to -30 for extended periods in the winter. I remember
hearing the "brake will freeze" thing but I also regularly used it in
my
manual transmission vehicles. Like Michael I never had a problem.
Peter Flipsen Jr
On Jun 20, 2014 9:17 AM, "Michael Ross via EV" <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
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> -----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
>
>
>
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