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Re: [oletrucks] Master Cylinder again!

To: safesix@worldnet.att.net, jsd51@hotmail.com, oletrucks@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Master Cylinder again!
From: Passnb4U@aol.com
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:58:14 EDT
In a message dated 8/13/99 6:56:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
safesix@worldnet.att.net writes:

<< On a pickup truck, my feeling is that you wil pretty much always need a
 proportioning valve, you have to reduce pressure in the rear or the brakes
 will lock up prematurely if there's no load in the bed.
 
 Jack / Winter Park FL
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Jeff Davis <jsd51@hotmail.com>
 To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
 Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 7:31 PM
 Subject: [oletrucks] Master Cylinder again!
 
 
 >      Reading all this good Q & A on brakes made me think of a guestion of
 my
 > own. If running disc brakes all the way around do you need the
 proportioning
 > valve? If so, are you trying to get more braking out of the front or out
 of
 > the rear? Since I have this setup and a mastercylinder is in the future
 > figured now would be as good a time as any to do the investigation. Thanks
 > in ADvance for all the good info. in this list.
 >
 > Jeff Davis
 > '51 custom.
 > >>


  Just to add some more, my '89 IROCZ has 4-wheel disc brakes, and a 
proprtioning valve.

  Mike
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