The force produced by a piston is the area of the piston times the fluid
pressure. Your pedal sinks (farther? further?) more, but the same pedal pressure
gets you more rear brakes if you put more piston area back there.
Chance: The reverse lockout cable breaks. Pay $200 to get it fixed.
Theo Smit
tsmit@novatel.ca
B382002705
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Laifman [SMTP:Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 9:07 AM
> To: tigers@autox.team.net; rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Stopping Power
>
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>
>
> 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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