Early RHD cars that can loose brakes
 

I have been warned about the possible loss of brakes in early A's. The fix is to stop the ball from falling out thus loosing all brakes. Anyone come up with some ideas for this.
I have been told this system was banned in the US
Sorry about the pick quality

Re: Early RHD cars that can loose brakes
 

Those two tabs on the crossmember are there to prevent the side arms from returning far enough to dissconnet from the ball. If your brake rods and brakes are adjusted properly, you are fine. That system was deemed unsuitable in a few states because there was not a separate emergency brake, as the hand brake lever applied the service brakes. The replaced brake system had a separate parking brake band in the rear drums. Interestingly enough, later fords did not have a separate emergency brake system, only a separate mechanism to apply the rear brakes.
When set up properly, that brake system works well, as the center link equalizes the brakes side to side, and the sliding side arms equalize the brakes front to back.

Re: Early RHD cars that can loose brakes
 

I have seen more than one ( we are talking about the "fork for the ball") that
spread/open up and get loose. Then somebody welds a piece of scrape metal
across the fork, after straightening the fork, too keep the "dog bone" from
falling out.

Dudley

Re: Early RHD cars that can loose brakes
 

Well my chassis came with the early system but not have those tabs, Someone put a bolt with a nut placed so that the system does not move beyond...

Re: Early RHD cars that can loose brakes
 

Not the best of pictures, but it is the only one I can find at the moment. This is the equalizer beam from a set-up that I had bought for my Leatherback. The fork arms for the dog bone have both had a serious bead of weld placed on the bottom of each arm, whoever did it, did it well. The beads of weld are only on the inside of the arms and keep the dog bone from sliding out. Aside from that everything else was in excellent condition.

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/v...A/IMG_0576.jpg

Re: Early RHD cars that can loose brakes
 

Leandro,

Not all of the center cross members had the tabs or the bolt in tabs....I'm guessing
sometime in June or July.

Dudley

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Re: Early RHD cars that can loose brakes
 

Also the seperate parking brake was in use by June of 1928 and the equalizer system for the brake continued to be used until November of 1928. My 9-27-28 has the parking brake handle in front of the gear shift, but still has the attachment for the left hand parking brake (as shown in Criswellnk's picture) and a metal cover over the hole on the left side, where earlier cars had the parking brake handle mounted.

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I'll show my old system but do not laugh because the dog bone is not original, can not remember the date of the chassis now, but the parking brake is separated and placed in front of the gearbox and had also placed the emergency cross shaft in the chassis...

Can you read the number on the chassis!!