[TR] Brakes vs. clutch

[Andrew Mace]

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>

Lucky you!  I've been through it several times now, not my favorite
experience.

70 Audi inexplicably had a caliper break, such that the seal pushed out of
the cavity...

58 TR3A was parked at the top of a hill ... I didn't notice the brakes
didn't work until after I was going downhill into an underground parking
garage with no outlet.  Did everything I knew to stop, including literally
dragging my feet ... 

71 Stag literally on the way to the shop to have (among other things) the MC
rebuilt.  Total failure of both hydraulic systems, followed by the handbrake
fading into uselessness...

==AM==
[Apologies if you've heard this one before!] 91 Ford Explorer, towing a heavy, "unbraked" trailer loaded with a
Standard Pennant sedan. Hard line to rear brake circuit ruptured. Ultimately had no choice but to drive several
hundred miles with only the front disc brakes of the Explorer stopping upwards of 6000 lbs. + of
rolling steel. Stops were planned WELL in advance.... ;-)

--Andy Mace

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