you rarely have to mess with drums and they let you dispense with power brakes in many cars. i will never get over the simplicity of my german built 70s VW Rabbit. no power steering or brakes. dry clutch. CIS. points and condenser ignition. i changed the plugs and points every 5k miles. took about 10 minutes to do. changed the condenser every 15k and coil and wires every 30k. never an ignition problem. ever. not even a slight one.
had 400k miles or so on it when a tree finally did it in. i donated to some school for evil boys who said they would bring it back to life although i never learned if they ever did or not. On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote: > Gary Hurst <jabbahur...@gmail.com> writes: > > > rear discs are vastly overrated. > > I like them because they are just much easier maintenance wise. I > always have trouble getting drum brakes adjusted right. > > I agree they probably won't make a huge difference in stopping ability, > as most of that is done by the fronts. > > Allan > > -- > 1983 300D > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090620/1e686ce5/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
