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Re: [GMCnet] Parts coach [message #151422 is a reply to message #151383] Sat, 03 December 2011 09:01 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
jhbridges is currently offline  jhbridges   United States
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Registered: May 2011
Location: Braselton ga
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As I said, several solutions are under consoderation.  However, the first step is put it how it once worked, as an old mentor once taught me.  In this instance, one of these coaches will eventually be sold to finance improvements to the other.  The new owner will get a working stock system to upgrade, and I will decide what upgrades I will make to the remaining coach.  A several thousand dollar investment won't be returned at sale.  So, I'll go with the two hundred solution for it.
 
--johnny
'76 23' Transmde Norris - kinda stops
'76 Palm Beach Kinda doesn't


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From: Carl Stouffer <carljr3b@yahoo.com>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Sent: Friday, December 2, 2011 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Parts coach



Johnny,

No doubt you will be able to improve your braking considerably by getting the original system up to snuff.  In a panic stop, you WILL lock up the rear wheels and therefore lose the effectiveness of that pair of wheels.  You MIGHT be able to lock up the front and/or the mid wheel brakes, but I doubt it.  I never tried.  The second paragraph in the caption for the following picture, was the reason I decided to put the money into this system:

http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/showphoto.php?photo=34215

My brakes were not in bad shape but needed to be refurbished.  They were very close to working at 100% and I could have restored them to original performance, but I was never comfortable with that.  I made the financially painful decision to take the $$ I would have spent and add $$$$ to exponentially improve the brakes instead.  I know that is just not an option for lots of people, but it was important enough to me to make the sacrifice and just do it.  This brake system is nothing short of incredible.
--
Carl S.
'75 ex Palm Beach
Tucson, AZ.
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