there are numerous types of parking brake aplications for rear disc brake
vehicles. some use a drive shaft band or disc brake that is purely
mechanical in it's aplication and release. some have the most common set
up of mini drum brake type shoes inside the "hat" of the disc brake rotor .
and there are independant inboard disc brake parking brakes and there are
calipers with a lever on the caliper that actually applies and releases the
caliper piston as the park brake. somewhat over simplified in my
explanation but the point being that numerous manufacturers have attacked
the problem in a myriad of ways. the end result being a suprise with evry
pulled rear wheel on a 4 wheel disc brake car!
chuck
what's next? an electronically applied parking brake?
-----Original Message-----
From Larry Macy <macy at bbl.med.upenn.edu>
To: Charles Christ <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: rear drums
>Sorta the same but a bit off topic. This question makes me wonder a bit
>about 4 wheel disc brakes. My Dakota has them. I seem to recall a
>discussion a long time ago that Chevy still used drums on the rear of
>the 'Vette because nobody had figured out how to make a disc brake
>parking brake release. They could figure out how to apply them, just
>not release.
>
>So what changed from about 20 years ago??
>
>Larry
>
>On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 11:27 PM, Charles Christ wrote:
>
>> ya know sumpth'in, i kinda wuz thinking that, but figgered it was just
>> one
>> of "those things" that eventually would be "discovered".
>>
>> chuck
>> "dem's da brakes!" :)
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