[TR] Hand Brake left on

[William Pugh]

Me thinks if you can drive the car with the handbrake on ... you have not
properly adjusted the system ...

On Nov 6, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Cosmo Kramer wrote:

> Hi List!
> Well I thought that Randall had a good idea of placing a switch on
> the Hand Brake (HB). The type that works like the refrigerator switch. When
> the door is closed (the HB is down & not engaged), the light is off. Then
when
> the door is opened (the HB is engaged), the light would go on.
> To carry this
> one step future:
> Set the wiring up in such a way so when the HB is engaged
> (light is on), that the ignition circuit is disengaged (car won't start).
This
> could easy be done with a switch that would works in the reverse way the
> refrigerator switch works (or like a standard 'on-off' switch is), but with
a
> 'button style' like the refrigerator switch is with a spring inside it.
NOW,
> there is no way she (or anyone else) can  start the car to drive it with
the
> HB on or engaged).
>
> This would work as an anti-theft device, too!   OR    An
> automatic 'Kill Switch'. If you were driving along & say your brakes gave
out
> (like a leak in the MC or Brake Line) then once you lifted the HB, The
engine
> would die & the HB would be engaged & the brakes as well. Now if you
released
> the HB the engine would be off & the car's gears engaged until you pressed
in
> the clutch peddle or placed the tranny in Neutral.
> Just a thought?-Cosmo
> Kramer



"Life is too short to drive Boring Cars"

Bill Pugh
Wallace, CA
Casper
1957 TR3
TS16665L
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