Doug wrote:
> ** Reply to message from "James G. Sack (jim)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 01
> Oct 2008 14:44:02 -0700
>
>> How _do_ they do emergency brakes on a 4-wheel-disk system?
>
> good question. I can only guess that there is a mechanical lever which would
> move the caliper onto the rotor. Maybe from a lip on the shoe or something
> like that. I don't know if they'd go with hydraulics since it would require
> a valve to keep pressure from going back up the brake lines.
Some cars in the '80s had a screw mechanism that worked the disk pads
mechanically. It was however somewhat unreliable. If you didn't set your
"parking brake" everytime you parked this system had a tendency to seize and
fail to function.
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