[Healeys] Drum Brakes

[John Rowe]

I totally agree with all of Larry's remarks. Having driven large trucks with
both styles of brakes, I'll take discs any day
John Rowe
Qld Australia
BN1 (with BJ8 Discs)
BT7 (with 4spot/drilled/slotted discs
Both stop good all the time


-----Original Message-----
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Larry
Varley
Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2015 5:14 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Drum Brakes

Hi Bob hope your doing well, ok I can't help but buy into this, are you
people insane? Drum brakes are good? who are we kidding. For a start modern
trucks are moving to disc brakes however the technology is still developing
and maintenance costs are high which is a big factor in the trucking
industry. If you enjoy ending up sideways during emergency braking sure
stick to drums, and if you enjoy the thrill of brake fade once again go for
it. Disc brakes outperform drum in virtually every sense, which is why
modern cars use them all round these days. Sure if your into originality
stick with your drum brakes but lets not pretend they can compete with a
modern disc brake system .
That is my 2 cents worth
Cheers
Larry Varley