Jamie- Re: Drum Vs Disc... (a rant)

[Arfon Griffiths <ArfonRG@xxxxxxx>]

> As far as talk about brake fade, I have never experienced that in my cars 
> and the only time I have even been in a vehicle that had that problem was 
> when my dad was using his pickup (don't remember year but it was a chevy 
> half ton) to tow a 1968 Jeep Wagoneer down a steep hill and the jeep had 
> no brakes and the second time was a few years ago with his current truck 
> (1976 chevy 3/4 ton). He was towing a large (7' by 12') all wood shed down 
> hill. (you probably don't want to know).
> and the third time was in a work truck that didn't have the greatest of 
> brakes (although the brakes were better than the clutch). It was a 1981 
> Dodge 3/4 ton club cab with a dump bed. We were towing a trailer full of 
> lawn equipment (the trailer its self weighed 1200 pounds) and had 3200 
> pounds of grass in the back. Yes I am sure of those weights, we had to 
> stop at the dump and unload when we came out we weighed 3200 pounds less 
> than when we went in and we weighed 1200 pounds more empty towing the 
> trailer than we normally did empty with out the trailer. So that 4600 
> pounds of extra weight woth bad brakes may have made a difference.


You know, if that truck had a set of bad disc brakes on them and not bad 
drum brakes, you wouldn't have had the stopping problem because disc NEVER 
suffer from fade.

Ow, I bit my tongue (because it was still in my cheek)....

:)