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Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH [message #244770 is a reply to message #244693]

Sun, 23 March 2014 14:36

mikethebike

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What most refer to as an 'emergency brake' is really a parking brake. If you ever attempted to stop a car using only the parking brake you would know this. It is precisely why the FEDS required a dual brake system beginning Jan 1, 1967

[quote title=WildBill wrote on Sat, 22 March 2014 17:12][quote title=

Will drums make as many repeated consecutive high speed stops without overheating as a set of discs will? No. But I'm not running like that in the GMC.

I am in agreement with JB on this. If you want to convert your GMC, by all means do. But I fail to see how, under normal driving conditions, it would be worth the time, expense, trouble.

I'm doing disks because if my perceived increase in safety as well as economics.

I don't know if driving down mountains is considered normal, yeah I know I can drop it to second or first gear however if I feel my brakes are up to it and can maintain a higher speed safely I would prefer to do so on a mountain 2 lane hwy and not have to deal with 2 1/2 miles of traffic honking at me when I find a safe place to pull over. While I'm not willing to put our safety at risk because of their inconvenience if I am confident occasional stabs at the brakes will bleed off enough speed I prefer to run that way

Same thing going up, I would prefer to do the speed limit up the mountain too!

As far as either emergency brake in 6 to 10% grades, in those situations both are more of a parking brake to some extent. If we were to only drive down hills or mountains at speeds that our emergency brake could stop us at we would never get anywhere, [/quote]

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		[GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Mr ERFisher on Sun, 16 March 2014 06:34
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Matt Colie on Sun, 16 March 2014 09:09
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Mr ERFisher on Sun, 16 March 2014 09:28
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Galbavy on Sun, 16 March 2014 16:05
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: jhbridges on Sun, 16 March 2014 19:12
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Galbavy on Sun, 16 March 2014 19:35
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Sun, 16 March 2014 20:16
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: corleyw on Mon, 17 March 2014 08:44
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: A Hamilto on Mon, 17 March 2014 09:50
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Galbavy on Mon, 17 March 2014 10:18
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Keith V on Mon, 17 March 2014 12:50
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Galbavy on Mon, 17 March 2014 12:58
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Mon, 17 March 2014 13:32
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Galbavy on Mon, 17 March 2014 13:40
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Mon, 17 March 2014 15:29
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Mr ERFisher on Mon, 17 March 2014 13:46
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: k2gkk on Mon, 17 March 2014 14:14
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: k2gkk on Mon, 17 March 2014 14:19
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Galbavy on Mon, 17 March 2014 14:56
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Bob de Kruyff on Mon, 17 March 2014 21:21
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Tue, 18 March 2014 09:44
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: A Hamilto on Tue, 18 March 2014 10:13
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Tue, 18 March 2014 19:21
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Mr ERFisher on Wed, 19 March 2014 02:43
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Bob de Kruyff on Mon, 17 March 2014 21:13
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: emerystora on Thu, 20 March 2014 16:51
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Keith V on Thu, 20 March 2014 17:55
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Mr ERFisher on Thu, 20 March 2014 17:59
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Galbavy on Thu, 20 March 2014 18:28
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Galbavy on Thu, 20 March 2014 23:04
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: GMC_LES on Mon, 17 March 2014 16:14
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: kelvin on Mon, 17 March 2014 16:51
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Keith V on Mon, 17 March 2014 17:12
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: GMC_LES on Tue, 18 March 2014 09:23
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Keith V on Wed, 19 March 2014 09:50
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Owen on Wed, 19 March 2014 10:33
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: emerystora on Wed, 19 March 2014 11:07
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: James Hupy on Wed, 19 March 2014 11:21
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: USAussie on Wed, 19 March 2014 18:18
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Bounds on Thu, 20 March 2014 14:37
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Thu, 20 March 2014 19:43
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Bounds on Fri, 21 March 2014 07:47
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: GMC_LES on Fri, 21 March 2014 10:13
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: k2gkk on Fri, 21 March 2014 10:25
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Keith V on Fri, 21 March 2014 17:02
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Jim Galbavy on Fri, 21 March 2014 19:54
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: jhb1 on Fri, 21 March 2014 20:51
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Bob de Kruyff on Fri, 21 March 2014 22:50
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Matt Colie on Fri, 21 March 2014 20:58
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Bob de Kruyff on Fri, 21 March 2014 22:54
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: GMC_LES on Fri, 21 March 2014 23:17
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: corleyw on Sat, 22 March 2014 08:39
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Sat, 22 March 2014 09:13
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: GMC_LES on Sat, 22 March 2014 09:42
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: corleyw on Sat, 22 March 2014 09:58
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Sat, 22 March 2014 13:02
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: WildBill on Sat, 22 March 2014 17:12
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Sun, 23 March 2014 14:36
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: WildBill on Sun, 23 March 2014 17:53
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Mon, 24 March 2014 11:08
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: corleyw on Mon, 24 March 2014 11:29
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: kelvin on Mon, 24 March 2014 11:36
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Olly Schmidt on Mon, 24 March 2014 11:39
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		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: kelvin on Mon, 24 March 2014 12:02
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: USAussie on Mon, 24 March 2014 17:55
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Tue, 25 March 2014 18:28
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		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: ljdavick on Tue, 25 March 2014 20:35
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		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Matt Colie on Wed, 26 March 2014 18:57
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		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Bob de Kruyff on Mon, 24 March 2014 19:10
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: mikethebike on Mon, 24 March 2014 13:06
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		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Mr ERFisher on Sun, 23 March 2014 07:00
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		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: WildBill on Mon, 24 March 2014 23:18
		Re: [GMCnet] Supplemental brake systems, kenH By: Bob de Kruyff on Mon, 24 March 2014 23:23
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