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rotorwrench · 09-14-2023, 11:14 AM

Ford put their best systems on the Lincoln product line first. It was first to get the Bendix floating brakes. Ford kept the Lockheed type brakes all the way up to 1948. They kept mechanical brake systems through 1938. Engineers had a different attitude about brakes in 1927 when the model A was in development. The model T only had rear parking brakes and the main drive brake in the transmission so the model A was new territory for the Ford design team. Understanding of what would work best wasn't evident to them yet. Those early model As even had an equalizer system with the hand brake on the left side like a model T.

By the end of WWII, brake systems started development in a more scientific direction. Rear brakes had smaller wheel cylinder bores and some had more narrow shoes than the front brakes.

09-14-2023, 11:14 AM	#13
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 16,497	Re: Brake Adjustment - Confusion Ford put their best systems on the Lincoln product line first. It was first to get the Bendix floating brakes. Ford kept the Lockheed type brakes all the way up to 1948. They kept mechanical brake systems through 1938. Engineers had a different attitude about brakes in 1927 when the model A was in development. The model T only had rear parking brakes and the main drive brake in the transmission so the model A was new territory for the Ford design team. Understanding of what would work best wasn't evident to them yet. Those early model As even had an equalizer system with the hand brake on the left side like a model T. By the end of WWII, brake systems started development in a more scientific direction. Rear brakes had smaller wheel cylinder bores and some had more narrow shoes than the front brakes.