On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ralph Shumaker wrote:
>>
>> I don't know why people call it an emergency brake. You never use it in
>> an emergency unless you want to flip around backwards.
>
> Really? On the cars I've worked on (admittedly older), I seem to remember
> that the emergency break would engage much more strongly on the rear wheels
> than the front ones.
>
> That's hardly a recipe for for flipping around backwards.
I think that on nearly all cars the "emergency" brake is a mechanical
brake for the rear wheels. Cars with disc brakes have additional
small drums on the rear wheels. Then there was my 1954 Plymouth,
which had the parking brake on the driveshaft.
carl
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