Re: Brake comparison Bendix vs Lockheed
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Originally Posted by john in illinois
Our Model A club had a tour to a brake test lane and the owner let us test our brakes free. The machine had 1 vertical tube for each wheel. Liquid rose in the tubes to indicate brake force. He had it set for light cars. We drove on at approximately 5mph.
My Tudor has MT Lincoln Bendix brakes on the front and Ford Lockheed brakes on the rear. Both have the same size piston in the master cylinder. 6.00 -16 radial tires.
The results were: front brakes liquid to the top, rear brakes liquid 1/3 way up.
The brakes pulled very even side to side.
This set up works very good for me, but I was surprised that the Lockheeds were not more equal to the Bendix. Anyway we all had a good time and learned a lot about our brakes .
John
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Did they also tell you that the front brakes do more of the work?.. You can't go wrong with the Lincoln/Bendix style brakes 
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