| Re: [GMCnet] The KISS Parking Brake [message #218943] |
Sun, 18 August 2013 17:12  |
KB
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> If there is an inherent danger of holding the brake pedal down by mechanical means, please explain it. I don't want to be using something that is going to kill me or someone else and don't want anyone else to either.
I've seen this on other vehicles when I was looking for
alternative brake solutions. Don't have time to search
right now, but I recall something like tractors used them,
maybe forklifts.
Karen
1973 23'
1975 26'
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| Re: [GMCnet] The KISS Parking Brake [message #218956 is a reply to message #218943] |
Sun, 18 August 2013 18:05  |
mickeysss
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Once in 1963 my brother and i made a milk truck into a camper and went from illinois thru mexico. We were in the mountains when i
put the emergency brake on which was a lever on the left by the big window of the drivers seat. It would do what clamping the
foot pedal down does to the line. It was just a pre-brake pedal lever about a foot long, I put my foot on the pedal and pressed
hard, then i pulled the lever as hard as i could and the line broke. We were told if i had not done that and broke it then we would
have gone off the mountain. In a way the compression brake design Kiss is a safety brake for leaks as well as stopping to say, let
a boat trailer in the water - that it is very important for one person to rely on a brake not to follow into the water. I use to put a boat
in the water alone and it needs a brake that will work or you have two boats in the water and one would be the gmc.
I like this design and if he makes more i would like to buy one. Let me know off list if you want to sell me one. thank you.
Mickey
anaheim ca.
77 palm beach
On Aug 18, 2013, at 3:12 PM, KB wrote:
>> If there is an inherent danger of holding the brake pedal down by mechanical means, please explain it. I don't want to be using something that is going to kill me or someone else and don't want anyone else to either.
>
> I've seen this on other vehicles when I was looking for
> alternative brake solutions. Don't have time to search
> right now, but I recall something like tractors used them,
> maybe forklifts.
>
> Karen
> 1973 23'
> 1975 26'
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