On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:44 PM, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In the old days that I remember, there were two common kinds of
> emergency brakes:
>
> 1) a cable linkage to a mechanism in the rear drums that levered the
> brakeshoes essentially the same as when applied hydraulically (but only
> on the rear wheels)
>
> 2) a separate driveshaft brake mechanism. I don't recall the details
> --don't recall ever disassembling one-- but I vaguely recall it was
> ahead of the forward universal joint, so that it didn't do much braking
> (emergency or parking) if you lost a u-joint. 'course if you lost your
> forward u-joint (at speed), maybe you would do yourself in before having
> time to think about emergency braking. :-(
>
> How _do_ they do emergency brakes on a 4-wheel-disk system?
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