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To: tigers@Autox.Team.Net, rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu
Subject: Stopping Power
From: "Jay Laifman" <Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:06:47 -0700


Bob, now you are going to be hit from both sides.  You wrote:

>Based on Lou's
>experience, I installed the earlier (bigger) slave cylinders in my Tiger.
>Even this did not give too much braking in the rear. Never could figure
why
>Sunbeam made this change. (Maybe Rich wrote them and told them his Alpine
>was locking up in the rear first?) Anyway, it's my impression that usually
>the rear drums on a Tiger aren't doing as much work as they should.

BIGGER slaves give LESS braking!  Bigger slaves means it needs MORE fluid
to move the same distance.  Therefore, you reduced the effectiveness of the
rear brakes relative to the front brakes.

Jay Laifman
Gotta keep that Laifman end up, sir.



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