Engine overpowered what motor?
From: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Stephen Andrachek
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:44 AM
To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: disc brake conversion
I only had stripes on my sleeves in the military. In the Officer's Handbook enlisted men were desribed as "lazy and stupid, but clever and therefor bear considerable
watching". Sums me up. Sometimes I just try to pull something out of this old head and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. If it doens't, there will be someone here to rectify the situation.
I thought the originals dual master cyliners were one wheel on one side of the car and one wheel on the other side of the car. That was years ago and I never paid
any attention anymore to it. It might have been the way I thought it was decades ago and they came up with the other way which works better (looking for some weasle room here). I just go with whatever was on the old car and the one I have now is a single
master cylinder and is staying that way. No power steering either. You have to be careful and it helps a lot if you drove cars like this in the old days. I did so I knew what to expect. Good, easy to work brakes (drum with no power assist) and long, slow,
hard steering. The trick to getting the car to steer more easily is to have the car moving, even if just barely when you are turning the wheel and the wheel turns about 10 times easier.
But if the motor conks out or you have to turn the key off because the throttle stuck, (it happened to me) I already knew what to do. With a car this powerful
you better have a plan already formulater. I turned off the key because the engine so overpowered the motor that with stuck throttle and the brakes locked the engine still had the car going at least 25 mph and a stop sign and another car's rear end were looming
in front of me. I tuned off the key, put the brake on with my foot and easily turned the car off the road, fixed the stuck throttle linkage and was quickly on my way. It keeps you on your toes.
Thanks for the correction,
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Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: disc brake conversion
...or you can make it completely buttetproof by using a dual-master cylinder for the brakes and if you are luck you will have at least one brake on each side of
the car working if you blow out any one wheel cyl.
a dual master cylinder when installed correctly will allow you to maintain either front or rear brakes if a wheel cylinder is lost,, another way of saying it is,
your will have both brakes on one end of the car if you blow any one cylinder
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