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Title: Mechanical Spot Caliper Post by: Sentinel on April 19, 2003, 12:52:37 am Anyone know a decent local source?
Title: Re:Mechanical Spot Caliper Post by: FieroDough on April 20, 2003, 09:29:19 am Nope, but I may know a source for a mechinic who may overlook the absence of one. :P
Title: Re:Mechanical Spot Caliper Post by: cowans on April 20, 2003, 08:48:22 pm If I understand your question correctly, I would assume you are looking for an alternative handbrake. If so, I believe a late 70's FRD Riviera had this as a singular floating caliper on the rears.
just a thought! Sandy Title: Re:Mechanical Spot Caliper Post by: Sentinel on April 21, 2003, 11:22:11 am That right, like the extra braking power, but really don't like trusting the car staying put on the engine compression. I'll look into to, thanks
Title: Re:Mechanical Spot Caliper Post by: JetJumper on April 21, 2003, 11:32:40 am Mine holds on The compression pretty good. :):) My E-Brake works...but everytime you use it, to disable it, you have to go and pull the cables in the back, So I just don't use it.
Title: Re:Mechanical Spot Caliper Post by: FieroDough on April 22, 2003, 07:31:13 pm This spot caliper, were does it mount? I've seen people wels a "disk" on one axle and a caliper. But the axle also moves up and down with the suspention.. so I doupt that will work. :(
Title: Re:Mechanical Spot Caliper Post by: cowans on April 24, 2003, 10:54:39 am There is another thought to this. There is a unit much like a line-lock but doesn't require voltage to enable/hold it. The unit goes by the name 'JAMAR BRAKE LOCK' and I used this until Ontario Transport decided differently! I just mounted the unit where the Fiero Handbrake was and routed the rear brake line up & back. The unit basically works like this.... Pull on the Jamar knob, depress brake pedal once, brake(line-lock) is set! Press on the Jamar, the 'line-lock' releases... I have since given the Jamar unit to a friend in PEI. The reason Ont Transport failed this is that "There is required to be a secondary braking device on a motor vehicle" and this unit was tapping into the 1st system!
Sandy Sandy Title: Re:Mechanical Spot Caliper Post by: fiero308 on April 24, 2003, 04:46:28 pm Wilwood makes one; just for that purpose. My impression is that it satisfies the legal requirement; no idea of how effective it is beyond that.
We now know of a few 'local' suppliers of Wilwood so I have already emailed a request as I was asking about a few other things too. will let you know what Ifind out 8) |