I have a '66 Thunderbird convertible; front discs, rear drums. This is
a car that weighs in the neighborhood of 4400 pounds. Single chamber MC
and the car stops fine. The issue comes if/when a leak happens, a hose
blows, a line lets loose or any other problem that could happen. Single
chamber cylinder gives zero back up. Had a '64 'Bird many years ago.
On the way home from work one afternoon a wheel cylinder went away. I
was in traffic and fortunately not going very fast. I had presence of
mind to hit the emergency brake and didn't hit anyone. The e-brake is
vacuum operated so it was relatively easy to drive the short distance
home. Since then I've always made sure brake systems are up to snuff
with the best money can buy. But that being said, because the car sits
for much of the time and things that don't get used deteriorate, I plan
on changing the single chamber over to a dual chamber from a '67 before
too long. I'm sure the single chamber MC in the roadster will stop the
car with no issues. Until that is, something bad happens to the brake
system and the driver isn't aware until too late.
Stan, not preachin' just sayin'
On 4/7/2013 12:06 PM, BARTERDUDE@aol.com wrote:
> Hey - I take exception to the assertion that the single brake master
> doesn't do the job. I had a 1964 1500 (single master) that I raced SCCA
> gymkhana style racing once a month and beat the heck out of the brakes (four
> wheel
> DRUM brakes with single master) and NEVER NEVER HAD A PROBLEM BRAKING. I
> won production E class beating out the euro garbage of there era. After
> 100K of road and racing, replaced the shoes once.
>
>
>
> Gary Lasater
> co founder WyCROC and ZROAD
> _www.WyCROC.org_ (http://www.wycroc.org/) and _www.ZROAD.org_
> (http://www.zroad.org/)
> Parker CO
> '63 Single Carb Datsun Fairlady
> '64 (2) Datsun 1500 Roadsters
> '67 1600 Datsun Roadster
>
>
>
> In a message dated 4/6/2013 4:15:04 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> cour.jpeg@gmail.com writes:
>
> 30 years later my '99 GMC still uses drum brakes on the rear wheels. They
> stop the truck and the boat just fine.
>
> With your 1969 you can explain to your confused neighbor he must be
> thinking about the old single circuit hydraulics, pre-'68.
>
> Proudly lift the hood and show your superior tandem master brake cylinder.
>
> Oh and don't gloat too much when you wave bye bye down the driveway when
> you see him.
> On Apr 6, 2013 3:46 PM, "Sandie Boothman" <edsandie@telus.net> wrote:
>
>> I have purchased a 1969 2000 datsun roadster and my neighbor is trying to
>> break my happiness bubble by telling me these cars have a braking problem
>> due
>> to rear drum brakes, is this a fact??
>>
>> Sandie
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