Thread: Brake troubles

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Originally Posted by 36 sedan

The cheap becomes expensive, lol!

Boy, you hit home with saying that, sometimes I feel like I am the Lone Ranger in the rodding world with this scenario, this forum shows I am par for the coarse!
Navy, I wanted to let you know also that that the brake manufactures now claim there is a difference in a parking brake & a emergency brake, simply put a parking brake will hold the car from a stop in neutral, a emergency brake is for emergencys, sounds like its a play on words to sell something of lesser function & quality, but almost all manufacturers call them parking brakes now. I am thinking the same thing, the sprag is stuck swap a front caliper and a rear caliper (don't worry about the cable) and see if the fronts work on the rear, they have the same bolt spacing if I remember correctly.

Originally Posted by Matthyj

Boy, you hit home with saying that, sometimes I feel like I am the Lone Ranger in the rodding world with this scenario, this forum shows I am par for the coarse!
Navy, I wanted to let you know also that that the brake manufactures now claim there is a difference in a parking brake & a emergency brake, simply put a parking brake will hold the car from a stop in neutral, a emergency brake is for emergencys, sounds like its a play on words to sell something of lesser function & quality, but almost all manufacturers call them parking brakes now. I am thinking the same thing, the sprag is stuck swap a front caliper and a rear caliper (don't worry about the cable) and see if the fronts work on the rear, they have the same bolt spacing if I remember correctly.

Yup I was going to try that but ran out of steam . The calipers are supposed to be emergency type according to the listing.

Originally Posted by Matthyj

Navy, I wanted to let you know also that that the brake manufactures now claim there is a difference in a parking brake & a emergency brake, simply put a parking brake will hold the car from a stop in neutral, a emergency brake is for emergencys, sounds like its a play on words to sell something of lesser function & quality, but almost all manufacturers call them parking brakes now. .

NAVY, I've got that Wilwood kit in mine, the "parking" or "emergency" brake is basically worthless! It won't hold the car on a hill and even if it's "on / engaged".. you can drive right over it without knowing it. I've done it a couple times so now I don't bother setting it.

I even added short pieces of metal to increase the leverage and it isn't much better.