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Re: [TR] Stay away from California!

To: "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] Stay away from California!
From: pethier@comcast.net
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:53:47 +0000 (UTC)
----- "Wbeech@flash.net" <wbeech@flash.net> wrote:

> I have often wondered about this logic of two separate chambers for
> the
> fluid.  It would seem to me that to have the full capacity of the can
> available would be the safer route, especially for the brakes.  Or
> the
> greater fear that there is more exposure to failure of both systems
> should
> one system fail?

Sure.  A clutch failure taking out your brakes is no picnic. The systems on my 
TR4 are completely separate, and that's the way I like it.

Of course, both the TR4 and my Seven have single-system brakes, but that's 
another story.

Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L   1979 Caterham 7
1993 Suburban  1994 Miata C-package  2007 Saturn Ion 3 2.4
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